Your easy laughter <br />Your jokes and smiles <br />And your jovial manner <br />Makes me feel so good, so comfortable… <br />And like a snail <br />I crawl <br />Out towards you… <br /> <br />But the ways of the world <br />And the complexities <br />Of the human mind <br />Make me feel so apprehensive, so terrified… <br />And like a snail <br />I keep <br />My shell handy, very close to myself…. <br /> <br />To retreat into just in case <br />your soothing smile <br />changes into a devilish sneer <br />and your friendly hand <br />stretches itself out <br />to kill, <br />to snuff the very life out of me.<br /><br />Jasbir Chatterjee<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-snail-2/
