Onion

Photo by Aa Dil

Wicked faces search for motives in my distracted head,

But I feed my thoughts to the vacuum cleaner.

The mystery will follow me until I am ice cold and dead,

And they will argue whether I was a people pleaser.

Chants rise over the horizon as I grow even more layers.

They despise these secrets I keep burying alive.

The money rolls in but I do not obey the eager payers.

As long as I provoke them, I will survive.

-Jackie