A Lizard Sonnet Poem by jan hansen

A Lizard Sonnet

If you travel to escape the small lizard on your back
You will eventually be outside your parents' house
Only they have long since go
Someone else lives there; perhaps a child sleeps in your bed
Dreaming your dreams
You walk down a street where you used to play
But no one knows, and the sense of loss overwhelms you
Swallow hard not to cry because your memory is untrue.
You left to get a small-minded town, poverty, and screams
In the night, but it was worth going back to remember 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 colors that
Could make it into a pet, but it is too quick and hides in corners
I can`t reach so it can live for now.