The visit

he will come with
sores that soil
your kindness
and smiles
that scare goodwill
he will come
he will knock
will you open?

he will come with bags
the size of your happiness
or the heap of your anger
he will come
he will seek for shelter
in your house

he will be a stranger
even stranger
he will be a leper

one day
a visitor will come
he will come to
find you

Vera