Slow Simmer

Take off your mask
and show me who you really are?

What are you hiding?
I know you want to.

Oppression can only go so far
before it bubbles over and
the subject of your irritation
is destroyed lest you
extinguish the flames beneath.

Then what’s left?

Would you be happy either way?

Come over here…
place your hand on my lap
and let it creep if you must

Just give me a slow simmer baby
with your top off...

and everything will be just fine.


By Philip Wardlow 2012