Meek Manners and Bold Banners

Droves and groves of darkness driven in rickshaws of dissipation Shake to their foundation heaps and drips of innocence Grown in salient steps in anticipation That progress pricks open wounds of imbalance Weighed against flares of care cultivated In travails that avail advances Processed after assessment indicated Needs for innocence to devolve dances Minds meander in to invite dollops of hope To rescue sanity and dignity from complacency Imbibed in goblin gulps that grope For light and might in the darkness decency Strains and cranes to appropriate proportions dunces imitate Manners that grow and throw rows of spanners In the works full of ammunition to decimate Conduits of despair to pave the way for meek manners and bold banners When envelopes of hope in their sterling scope Shine light to illuminate stairs Where despair creeps, sleeps and weeps to hope For a solution that solves pesky problems upstairs Sowing seeds that weed out feeds In formulated fractions and functions with efficacy Effectiveness and efficiency creeds In a manner dishing out an adroit diet delicacy When an invisible hand snaps to attention Combat crews primed to wipe out All clouds of despondency whose mission Terminates defeat deficiencies beyond any shadow of doubt.