Gecko knowledge

Gecko knowledge

The jeweled gecko

                                               walking effortlessly

                                                  up the wall

                                                        and across the underside

                                                                of the overhanging roof

stops

                            and looks at me.

                                           Is he waiting

                                          for a crumb of toast

                              or flicking his tongue

                            to taste the air for my smoothie?

But his look seems to wonder

                                          why I don’t join him

                                    upon the wall and over the ceiling

                                       and use the ability

                                            he assumes he shares with me,

 to use attractive van der Waals' forces 
from molecules in
                              boards and walls and glass.

         

                As he slips into a crevice

                                                                 is he sad  that I don’t

                  understand my

                  capabilities

 or

only certain

                                                        that someday

                                                   I will

                                                       know,

                                                            and

                                                                join

                                                                   him

                                                                       up

                                                                         there

                                                                            on

                                                                               the

                                                                              wall?