A Lizard Sonnet

A Lizard Sonnet If you travel to escape the small lizard on your back You will eventually be outside your parents’ house Only they have long since go Someone else lives there perhaps a child sleep in your bed Dreaming your dreams You walk down a street where you used to play But no one knows, and the sense of loss overwhelms you Swallow hard not to cry because your memory is untrue. You left to get a small-minded town, poverty, and screams In the night, but it was worth going back to remain you what An awful place you left. I have a small lizard in the kitchen have tried To kill it because it is grey and without redeeming colours that Could make it into a pet but it is too quick and hide in corners I can`t reach so it can live for now.