Mailman
by Richard Leader

I was trafficking illegal methods,
leaving them at random doorsteps,
across a country that denied my existence.

Brown paper bags left on porches,
taken inside with the morning news,
who is to say which is more dangerous.

Through my gifts, meaning is brought to their days,
or at least their last day, but the opening was their choice.
I lose little sleep, for I need none.

Please don’t bother to look for me,
I will surely find you when you least expect,
Chances are, that you have already seen me.

A solitary green van in a parking lot, just wonder,
A station wagon following you down the midnight road,
high beams penetrating the back of your skull, wonder.

 
 

You probably have little to fear,
I do my job well, I have a gift,
my life for your deaths.

But I am no Saint Nick, I can’t be everywhere,
I have my limitations, just in case you’re wondering,
yeah, I deliver on Christmas Eve too.

Just a matter of time,
I cannot lose for it has been ordained,
I am the ultimate mailman.

Rain and snow, I laugh at,
in my travels I trod fire and brimstone,
barefooted and willingly.

One of these days you will find a present on your doorstep,
my gifts have many wrappings, but never a return address,
no one refuses my packages, satisfaction is guaranteed.

The question is, do you open it?
I have not yet found a person,
who claimed to have everything.

I am sure your greed will prove sufficient,
even if you think that you have seen it all,
trust me, I have seen better.

At least take a peak,
you know you can’t resist,
everyone else did it.

Oh, so you seem to think that you are different than them,
somehow superior. I doubt it, I know my job.
You’re all the same, at least in the end.

Oh, I can see how much smarter you are,
your freewill, individuality and all,
I agree, keep saying it, don’t ever stop.

Yes, you are better than them,
you can see how pathetic they are,
blindly accepting my craft.

That’s why I made your present extra special.
You know you want it.
You know you want it.

I was trafficking illegal methods,
leaving them at random doorsteps,
across a country that denied my existence.