Of Sinking Ships and Political Debauchery

Today captured souls sail on a Titanic-like ship over a new Middle Passage journey on a turbulent sea, whose waves undulate and froth with viciousness; The captain and crew play ping-pong with the chartered course—the crew often loosing— abandoning ship or otherwise simply thrown overboard; A strange manifest has this ship--shackled minds-- coral reefed like red mackerel packed in a tin; Caught in a Bermuda Triangle-like whirlwind, its destiny is beyond its strained confines and its chaotic disorientation a vastness rivaling the depth of the awe of a Grand Canyon; As fate would have it, an unsecured ill-steered ship is like a misguided nation in a political python sea, hissing with trashing waves frothing with corruption: both caught in off-course hurricane winds of change.