Only a Smile

A day dazed
by a brain’s
unspeakable strain

hovering over
a hollering gleam
of a grin,

something
for someone
to focus on,

a distraction
from abstraction,
a smile,

a siren
slash, a flash
of flesh

to gnash the mesh
of thought
to a stuttering pulp

then burn it away
with a blinding bright
ray

so before you
is only
a smile



.