I See Red

I see red

Streamers of scarlet

Spark and ignite

Primed to fight

I antagonise

With crimson intent

Hell bent

On fighting my way

To the end

Infrared

You can’t see

My internal landscape

Red belly black snake

Head heavy

Neck braced

Primed

For action

And reaction

A tense interaction

My facts

Mix with fiction

Lose decorum

And diction

A grievance

Becomes a snarl

A reflex

to fight

and spar

Cinnabar secrets

Flushed with hubris

Burrow into

Cracks and crevices

Your point of view

Is menacing

To my survival

And my evidence

Of any

and all wrongdoing

I am prone

To misconstruing

The cardinal rule

In all of our conflict

Even when you’re beige

And nondescript

I see burgundy

As I flip the script

Blood rushing

Ruby-lipped

In readiness

I am gripped

I see red