The Night Mare

Will you ride on my merry go round with it’s stained glass and

twinkling lights

And it’s horses going up and down galloping through the night?

You’ll go with me to no where, where we’ll end where we’ve begun

And revel in joys to the “um-pah-pahs” and mourn the rising sun.

Lonliness is

Painted horses......Colored glass

Off key music.......Lots of brass

Empty saddles.......Silent noise…

Plaster faces....Portraying joys

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The Carousel's Cursed

Black horse with flowers and saddle bejeweled

Wild-eyed you run...the world has you fooled.

You rise to the music and bow to the brass...

You're spooked by the rainbows of carousel glass.

Carved with a vengeance, you snarl in pain

as you go up and down

to the music's refrain.

jennifer grant