Who Are You

by Xen Zenovka

Are you really a fox with a bow in your hair 
A spring in your step and a boldness of air; 
A poet, a healer, creator, a friend: 
Beloved, yet hopeful for love in the end; 
       Who doesn’t take crap and speaks from the heart 
       Words graceful, with beauty: your life and your art? 
 
Are you really a noob with no shoes on your feet 
And hair that is monochromatically neat; 
Confused and yet hopeful this might turn out well 
(If only for money, advice and a gal) 
       Who doesn’t take crap and speaks from the heart: 
       Questions naïve on just where to start? 
 
Are you really a man with a gun in your hand 
Rage in your eyes as you ply your dreamland; 
Arrogant, boastful, macho or cool, 
Smooth-talking, sensitive, leaver, a tool; 
       Who doesn’t take crap and speaks from the heart: 
       Words angry and bitter; hurtful and stark? 
 
Are you really a star with a house on the shore 
And a strut on the catwalk I’ve not seen before; 
Sultry and charming, the men shove and vie 
For a glance their direction; a glint of your eye; 
       Who doesn’t take crap and speaks from the heart 
       But plays the game carelessly thinking you’re smart? 
 
Are you really a whore hawking pixels for cash 
With your garter cinched tightly round bare-legged flesh; 
Who says pay me first - you’re no naïve waif - 
For the deed, you swear frankly, is perfectly safe 
       Who doesn’t take crap and speaks from the heart 
       Unless it pays better to shut up and tart? 
 
Are you really a couple that dances with ease 
That laugh in the moonlight, the flirt and the tease; 
Who make love as day breaks and waves crash around 
While newbies gawk wond’ring where’s this to be found; 
       Who do not take crap and speak from the heart: 
       Words tender, but fleeting, ‘fore pixels go dark? 
 
Is this really a world where we are what we are? 
The fox or the man, the whore or the star? 
Is it truth? Does it matter? Is it all just a game? 
Which is which? Do you know? If you don’t it’s a shame. 
       Life doesn’t take crap and speaks from the heart 
       The story of who we have been from the start.