Lugubrious Losses, Choices, Voices and Tosses

Remonstrations, protestations, recriminations In the wake of a calamity that strikes below the belt In communities decimated and disabled by insinuations Brought to a head when fickle feelings melt As tempers in embers flare In scenarios of utter disbelief prompted by dysfunctions In families with implicit love deficit declare A truce among gladiators lest functions Held in high esteem at best Considered tenuous at worst in the light of evidence Adduced by a traditional herbalist to test Depth and strength of balance, cadence, credence In norms hitherto perceived as golden standard In matters of natural justice Scoring above or below zero on a scorecard displayed with prominence on a placard Denounce the injustice Shown and grown with no iota of shame to collect and dissect scalps Carried, harried, buried six feet under In Utopian Alps Reeking of the stench of blunder and thunder by a gander who considers gender A taboo with tattoos of blame Training, staining, raining participants to a cabal With the lame name Ordinarily thought banal Strut the shame a family feels At a low point in the life It purports to live when squealing eels Swimming in family ponds and puddles of strife Stick a sharp knife Into taboos of bamboos it desecrates As a funeral fife Consecrates and concentrates cancer crates To wind up a discourse of the mute While weeping eyes Refuse yielding to coercion to recruit Sties, ties, flies and pies teeming with lugubrious lies.