Lady Labyrinth Poet Free verse

Fits the Need

"Fits the Need" 


All people want 
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home

to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free

live life 
how "we" 
were meant to feel

to have no hell 
continually raising chaos
in this very very small life we lead

yet we crumble 
like the fall of Rome 
monotonously, perpetually

All people want
is a future free
of social denigration and disability

and love...
what of love?
for you and me?

we all need love
even those underground
by those above, never seen

treated like hounds
with fleas
ridiculous and unsound

we all need love
this is implanted in us
more religious, than any creed

to light our hearts
and fill our smiles with 
unbiased generosity

imagine that 
a life with no love, 
without a you and me

isolation 
an endless aching 
untreated cavity

humanity is reaching out
for humanity 
but fear and greed 

hard hearted, 
reigns scaly and 
suffocating supreme

if you were me 
and I were you
what would we fully understand?

and see?
if I were you 
and you were me?

we sometimes look 
and feel the need 
to assist and free the lesser "we"

most of the time
though, 
if truth be real,

we'd save ourselves first
before the unwanted 
unnecessary "we"

we abruptly turn the other cheek
well outside of what we thought
we could and smudge it all out

the life we promised
to write and live to reciprocate 
on our cornucopia roundabout
 
all those new 
better lessons learned
in that contract 

impressed upon us
in that previous time
groundhog vainglorious

where we all agreed 
to sing and spin 
the sunny group soul chat

better them
than 
me, "we" think

I wonder 
how poetry 
fits the need

with all its 
gilded love and beauty
winning awards

sadness in reality
tomed tongue in cheek
lacking any true credibility

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)



"We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings"/ Thom Yorke
https://youtu.be/5d-AUUkkKj4







"It’s a terrible shame
And the grass is always green
Get it while you can
Or get sad and then get mean
I’m stuck in a rut, in a flatland drainage ditch
And I’m drowning
In irrelevance..."









LYRICS/ "We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings", Thom Yorke
https://genius.com/The-smile-thom-yorke-jonny-greenwood-tom-skinner-we-dont-know-what-tomorrow-brings-lyrics

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Lady Labyrinth June 18, 2022 at 4:18 PM Bit left of centre (which I love), makes some valid points. Some will get it, others won't. Lady Labyrinth June 18, 2022 at 4:18 PM https://youtu.be/rFiMeC8zOyo

Unseeking Seeker June 18, 2022 at 2:36 AM thus continues our hypnotic trance, with lower mind deluded dalliance Lady Labyrinth June 18, 2022 at 3:02 AM unfortunately, my forte is not sugar-coating flummeries and trance is for those more experienced. ;) With regards to the 'homeless' issue (which led me to write this poem), along with the related circumstances that go hand-in-hand with homelessness, I have a personal interest and I understand it entirely. Poetry whether it helps or not, is another matter, specifically it's significance at present...it is a saving grace for some, but some (and I am very certain of this) who write poetry, may feel they are, like Thom Yorke's lyrics, "in a flattened drainage ditch, drowning in irrelevance". This is part of the empath people try to ignore. Will poetry have an effect on humanity? Does it assist humanity in the overall bigger picture of what we are all facing in our current era and into the future? just a humble 'scribbling'...