Running With Scissors (a Pantoum)

Running with scissors across frozen lakes,
no comprehension of the danger you’re in.
To you the consequences are ‘just the breaks’;
to me, it’s unforgivable sin.

No comprehension of the danger you’re in,
When you borrow and play and lose.
To me, it’s unforgivable sin,
A life my heart would never choose.

When you borrow and play and lose,
I truly see only disaster ahead:
A life my heart would never choose,
This life that fills me with absolute dread.

I truly see only disaster ahead!
I ought to get out, no matter what it takes.
This life that fills me with absolute dread,
running with scissors across frozen lakes.

2/13/24