The Wolf Who Cried Boy
A cautionary tale
of the praise of ignorance
a walk in the park
down the avenues of denial
Of how man first became the enemy of woman
and she an enemy of him
and how they bred themselves to dissolution
and sent their lovers into battle
to raise an army of murdered children
upon the milk of wolves did suckle
A cautionary tale indeed
for this yarn was typed out on walls graffiti
and scrubbed at insistently with holy pages
till it read like an asylums script
a daily parade of bickering madness
that ate its way through every breakfast table
until
until the barking dogs of uncertainty
were the only thoughts that rattled with surety
all mad
everyone crazy
every spittle of opinion
stammering its blade into that army
that army of murdered children
Their laughing indignant isolation
with such applause finds their terrified agreement
to make of all the enemy
and the enemy is
and the enemy breathes
and the enemies of peace
are believed
So it was in fine tailored cloth
how the flags of Gomorrah
ate the poor
Insurrection a distant battle cry
lay its drooling mouth
and bartered ignorance
for the price of a human soulless
so well entertained before rude awakening
that nothing was gained
and everything was lost
and the blight of Sodom held freedom
by the throat
A cautionary tale indeed
when the wolves send your lovers into battle
and raise their army of murdered children
Copyright © Colin Mitchell Williams | Year Posted 2017
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