It

~ Harlan Didrickson 

It’s avoiding me now 
love love is avoiding 
me now it skitters
scampers and slides gleefully 
teasing and tauntingly away 
from me like some 
feral cat or spoiled 
child calling haha you 
can’t catch me stupid 
So I mope I sit
and I mope singing 
woe is me and 
I swear off this 
obnoxious game of tag
for even in tag
sometimes I’m it but
love I never am