Emotional Shrapnel
Continuous cathartic resonance of black bashful veil,
imposing the darkest recess and its tangled tantrums amassed,
phases exist without problematic manifest intrusion illusory but for a while,
the reckless chilling bursts of wild incendiary angst a blight,
such burdens match interminable interior and exterior struggle,
the bulk of etched trauma recent or derivative of remote life event,
an additional weight as each sufferer ploughs meaningless routine,
the drab and dull flat repetitiveness referred to as career duty,
the soul a defenceless fortress can dread assault from evil edge enemy,
the unleashing of sour swathes of volatile ravage
inopportune and heart wrecking,
leads to self sabotage and groundless apprehension for future avenues,
that numbing tension an elusive encroachment when one is found wrestling,
with conscience and the crucifying stranglehold known as guiltless guilt,
wanton scruple askance reinforced by abstruse external fleeting moral bouts,
sheer human horror dispensed by tyrant and titan across verifiable spectrum,
lesions are a legerdemain to the callous calculating cunning inveigled,
emotional explosive device vicious at an antagonistic activist warped whim,
lessons in covert manipulate manoeuvring have been gleaned by authority,
avatars of the mind and its peculiar twists and entangled torsions,
infra red detector shone on the patently anaemic due to accidental random crossing,
pathway strewn by mischance whose fortune drought imposed on weakened slender shoulder,
those who are shrewd can be blighted by anything other than encounter with the stonewall artic spirit,
weapons in the arsenal are suffused in the iron edge dominating moral laggard on mission selfish,
obstacle a trivial diversion to the cynic whose merit badge is blatant focus on themselves,
preeminent individual one can justifiably describe as lack of authentic eminence,
rules of restraint don’t apply they bellow foul infringement when rare occasion victim,
the vile purveyors pounding at one’s door fragile enough protector in obvious ways,
when an otherwise rational person this could be you or I in a brief blind episode of folly,
are sufficiently tolerant enough to ignore the insensitive indicators flashing before us,
we may discard the entreaties from loyal friends founded on uninterrupted support in a crisis,
there maybe deliberate delusions when one is determined not to heed trustworthy advice,
this is not to blame the victim whoever he she or they may be,,
just be cognisant that totally selfish people arbitrarily pass as angels,
it must be emblazoned everywhere by those who abhor the cunning evil monger,
that wether in a misguided group or acting in a single capacity,
a lethal mercenary entity doesn’t understand indeed wish to understand bleeding anguish,
these heavily armed ruthless rogues are the quintessential an occupying force,
the destructive trail they leave behind is of no concern to them whatsoever which is clear in hindsight
Copyright © Howard Kerr | Year Posted 2025
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