Hunt Down Your Smile

Anxiety knows no season Paranoia sees all at once Birds of prey play devil with reason The years liquefied into months Somewhere east of Eden and west of the deadly Nile I gather up the things I need and try to hunt down your smile There are laws of attraction By some people, we are repelled Mutual satisfaction is an easy little package to sell I dragged a crocodile’s carcass Across the buzzing Nile I’m up to my eyes in trophies And still I hunt down your smile All hail! All hail the King of the Rains Whose losses, losses keep resembling gains Whispering my mantra Straight into the lion’s mouth A memory plagued by phantoms Principles gone south I’m home from the Serengeti The dark passage of my soul For the Great Becoming, I’m ready Exert a little self-control I was a man without dependents ‘til the King died in the Nile You could call it a kind of sentence: Having forever to hunt down your smile