Came So Easy

Just 'cause it came so easy like quiet evenings in my kitchen

Just 'cause it came so easy like little breezes of indecision

Lines of ants came crawling through the cracks there in my tiles

Sat there and I watched them as they pillaged in single file

Just 'cause it came so easy, I was loath to admit it

Just 'cause it came so quickly, I was startled like I had tripped

And I reached out an accusing hand to the treachery of the street

Leaning as though in the wind you helped me to my feet

Your kind words came so easy and I half-winced at the sugar sweetness

Made me feel so wealthy, so I got tongue-tied, I got restless

And I opened my doors and windows to the many creatures of July

Strange cats come in mewling, bugs that crawl and ones that fly

All my flour fell victim to slow and sullen moths

In the heat, we both were gasping, wrapped in dripping cloths

Just 'cause you came so willing, I never made you, I didn’t call for you

So sure I was needless, but all the strange things of the dirt are

Obstinately drawn to sweetness, bite through plastic through the masonry

You came uninvited with a jar of your parent’s honey