Dirt!

...on the road sticks onto u,
like a leech in the forest
but is gender-less.

It covers your body and pretends to be a protector,
it greases you slowly, carefully when you’re not looking
and disfigures you.

Then,
like an outsider, it laughs at the new ugly ‘you’
and
secretly
and moves onto the next body, the next catch…

Next time, these creatures come back,
tell them –
not anymore, there’s nothing left to ruin anyways,
let them go chirp with other ‘dust’
and then settle down with half-hearted chocolate lip balms,

while you take a bath with your protector
who will wipe you clean of such filth/muck.

But its still scary, you know,
that a piece of crap can fool you,
and its even more frightening to see
that its out on the loose!