Alcoholic

tattered leather boots eyes tethered with half a shoe lace frayed socks hidden by threadbare pant legs rumpled shirt and jacket covering a tightly drawn torso solitary fallen angel lost in their plane of existence rarely finding enough food to sustain hungry wringing hands knowing cold rain in torrents or hot wind parching lips companion to imagined phantom and ghost twisting toward a black abyss ciphers hold a mind in captive agony while thirsting for a demon pint aimless footballs meandering among sepia and full shadow one of the untouchables invisible beneath harsh haloed street-lights untouched by grace and providence yet hopelessly beloved oft mocked caricature freezing on a park bench in summer alcoholic