Rupert M. Loydell, Snake Oil

                                                                          Snake Oil, Image by Rupert M. Loydell 

SNAKE OIL

An understandable kind of fear
rooted in hurt and bewilderment.

We may be alive but only just;
it is not the same as it was.

It’s true I like it here
but now I am ready to go.

No spare parts are available;
snake oil is all we have.


© Rupert M Loydell