Elbow Room

Sometimes it’s a sudden smile
The kind which smiles u and u don’t smile it
Catches hold of you and it wont leave
Try however hard until the moment goes by

Sometimes it’s a heavy load of chains
Tied at either sides
To the frail red pump of your life
Pulling it further asunder

It’s mostly like a prick from a rose
The softness of the petal apologising
To the crimson oozing from the tip of the finger
The rose shamelessly beautiful still...