You jump up and down ….. shake your arms around…
you scream out, shout out, sing out, speak out…
you dress up, dress down, undress, overdress…
recriminate, expostulate, enunciate and remonstrate….
cower, tower, lower and glower…
wheedle, beseech, moan and groan….
insist, persist, resist and retribute…
proclaim, exclaim, expound and annunciate..
profess and extol, praise and raise…
adore and nurture, love and cherish,
value and protect, dote…
calibrate, castigate, calumnate…
like a lighthouse..
with slowly turning beam…
signalling ‘here I am’
and in the end
you meet your death.
alone.
and your light goes out.