Uncommon Desire
Assimilated hope was slowly dying,
it was a famine time of charity —
A moral plague that persisted four centuries
The stench of hatred hung heavy
in the unforgiving air,
as the spittle of anger reigned
over barren hearts
Letting stunted promises drench hollow souls,
whose thirsty craniums
were filled with epidermal fear toxicity
Iron sky yield ... putrid harvest
of melting pot hope empty
Synthetic emotion was the
technological mirage
Shimmering thoughts of inclusion
sprouted a forged bond
of artificial unity
Yesterday tears fell upon
the parched plains: Fallow scroll posterity
filling famished eyes with inundated scarcity
Imaginary field of harmony dream
grim reaped the invisible grain
Uncommon desire withering,
a noble ideal malnourished by
evaporated yearning
Bellyaching pain
caused by bloated delusions
of benign acceptance
Visible spectrum separation
was the preferred national identity
Deferred promises of equity (the framers said)
will always Last Supper portrait be
the knit kindred starvation policy
Driven by unchanging winds of violence,
perpetually overcast cloudy
4-21-21
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2021
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