Kelly Hitchcock Poet Rhyme

Lemmings To a Cliff

Instincts stored from antiquity
Leather bound books; library in the mind
Beautiful tragic collections and revisions
The conundrum of neurology; conflict presides

Endowed with supreme cognition
Cursed, condemned by the residue of blind drives
Irreconcilable emotional juxtapositions
Humanities ironical demise

Profoundly ignorant, unabashed, and indifferent
Audacious opinions of uninformed certitudes
In the end, passions rule reason
The instinctual beast can’t be subdued

Like Lemmings to a cliff running blindly
Chasing those with no knowledge or esteem
If only one to be the wiser
Perhaps we awake from a really bad dream

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Kale Brereton May 29, 2018 at 8:13 AM Absolutely amazing work! The message and emotion is profound!! Absolutely beautiful. Kelly Hitchcock May 29, 2018 at 8:17 AM Kale, thank you so much.

FJ Thomas December 18, 2017 at 6:50 PM Kelly this is an amazing piece. It makes you want to read and reread! Kelly Hitchcock December 19, 2017 at 11:34 AM Thank you!

Arturo Michael December 18, 2017 at 4:12 PM Perhaps..."The instinctual beast can’t be subdued," if not - like lemmings to a cliff - Nice poem - All the best Kelly Kelly Hitchcock December 19, 2017 at 11:35 AM Thanks Arturo....the blind drives of biology and the moral constraints of society. Freud said this is where the anxious sense of self presides.