Soft White, Scarlet Lips

Sleep is elusive and will not find me.

As elusive as she makes herself to be.

She who haunts a boy's dreams

in scarlet, beautiful white; silken white.

Soft white, scarlet lips, a wonderful kiss.

I hate you because I love you and cannot sleep.

I am the Folly

I am a folly.

Or at one?

I am a folly?

Or at one.

I am a lifetime, unborn

a dream, underachieved.

A thought, forgotten

or a question, unasked?

I am a god, praised

a silver coin, saved.

An answer, correct

or a statement, said.

I am the folly.

I am the folly.

The folly of my time;

               a second.