Exposed For All To See
("Pandora's Box", 2014, original pen and ink and oil)
Exposed for All to See
In the world turned upside down,
bad is good.
And inside out,
corruption long shielded is celebrated.
For now at least
exposed for all to see.
It’s called the fall of civilization
as what once held us all together,
by holding us each back,
collapses into narcissistic pleasure
breaking tainted hearts and distorted minds
into the common well, now poisoned.
The weight of humanity’s collective mutational load
too much to bear, spews what can’t be held, from
the gaping wounds and oozing sores of Pandora’s Box,
perverted pleasures, twisted identities, confused genders,
senseless violence of relative values,
through the broken gates of order and control.
In the world turned upside down
what was bad is good, and good is bad;
the wicked held high, and righteous in chains
everywhere sheep led to slaughter
civilization on its knees, helpless
for now at least,
exposed for all to see.
(9/8/23)
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