Sunday, August 23, 2020

Doomer Pangs

 Tender years gave rise to these formative thoughts

An inspiration to heroism - epic, long and true;

A call to arms to contribute

Easy words that pass to be heard and parroted

Through every level of heaven and hell and whatever lay between.


Such is cry and farce combined into the truest lie

Where simple men can only sit and stare

Through gaps in a grasping web

Of a stalking arachnid

Whose purpose is machination beyond our nightly fear.


And yet the congregation lends its ears to the old spider

Its forked and silvery tongue reaching through

Our oily sepulchral halls:

Where the dead of ages past are interred

Putting into their proper place those whose futures are forgone.


Tender years give rise to such formative thoughts,

As darken the soul under cover of night

Cool and forgiving in sorrow extended

Harsh and biting to those who enlist in redefinition;

Pallor of the soil whose plague-bearing hands never wither.


The conclusion of our past brethren

Cannot anymore be dug up and changed

As was understood and lost in times past

But which we shall now know in finality

That escape seems impossible.

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