Lizard Sonnet

A lizard Sonnet If you travel to escape the small lizard on your back you eventually are outside your parents´ home to find they have long since gone. Someone else lives there perhaps a child sleep in your bed dreaming your dream. You will walk down the street where you used to play but no one knows and the sense of loss is overwhelming. Swallow hard not to cry because your memory is untrue. You left a small-minded town, poverty and screams in the night. but it was worth returning to remind you what an awful place you left. I have a small lizard in the kitchen I have tried to kill it Because it is grey and without redeeming colours that I could use as a pet. It is also quick and hides behind the fridge where I cannot reach it. I will let it live for now.