Perdition Now Assured

You try to mask your given voice
  in what’s perverse and then profane

But truth speaks only for itself,
 your costume tattered—seamstress blamed

This great parade, a grand charade,
  your song a flattened chord 

Its final line to seal your fate,
 —perdition now assured

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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