the lizard

The Lizard  He had travelled long distances before going back to where he was  a child Stopped out what had been his parents  house, someone else lived in their flat perhaps a child sleeps in his bed and  dream his dreams. He was overwhelmed by a sudden  sense of loss because his childhood had been hard, and there is no bed but a sleeping bag He had, as an adult, constructed his own childhood, one he came to believe  and told other people over and over again   The lizard, on his back, was set free  to glue itself on someone else's  back