One more pill,
One more self-denial of internal strength,
One more unhealthy decision,
One more drink to ease the tension,
One more fruitless thrill,
One more wasted skill,
One more temperament becoming ill,
One more day by the windowsill of life,
Looking out,
Wondering,
Crying, “Why?”
Then comes the light.
Habit,
Fear,
Addicts still cheer,
***** as it seems,
Passing on by go some dreams,
Screams occur,
Many things blur,
One thing for sure,
Are the things that were the cure,
No larger are,
That is ALL I know so far.
It is FUBAR!!!
From the top to the bottom,
The world is nothing
If not a flaming cauldron
Pulling us in, you, me, each and every one
Down a slippery slope
Into the breach
Because we can and must,
And when it comes
How do you rise to meet the tide,
Or do you waiver, falter and fall?
This moment when there is just you
How do you rise?
While all around others cower
Because they know not what it means
To rise
Each moment we arrive
In a field littered with the fallen
And the falling
While all around others depend
On what we have yet to draw
Everywhere you turn
You see the needy and the helpless
Drowning because they never learned to swim
Waiting and watching for those who know
To do what is duty bound
And so it goes, the few rise and the many sink
Their cries the same, but oh so different
You, me, to each our own
On the cusp of a crux
That is it all
(7/20/24)
Suspicion of Duty Dereliction
latest prediction
started having suspicion
duty dereliction
Jim Horn
Seven more to go to
8,000. Just like how
many more days
does Trump have
in office?
Until the cap is won, effect of heat on reasoning remains unknown.
Until the palace is visited, that comfort creates discomfort is undiscovered.
Until power is tasted, that corruption is a genetic disorder remains a fallacy.
Dereliction, never a power disability, but a long inherited trait in ANTIQUITY
The Lion hectors the antelope
The Antelope terrorizes the grass
Strength uncommon to both BUT power.
Vulgarism and terrorism, power that corrupts the powered.
Corona virus, a legal tender to decipher corrupt human trait
The politician the national purse suppressed, the Grocer the destitute suppressed.
Deserting your own judgment
—the highest form of treason
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
Lies are inclusive
Truths are not
Think before you speak
That's what everybody taught
Envisaging is something
Which is not permitted
And I cannot foster the crops
That I myself cultivated
I'm slammed on with the ideas
Which are not even good
But I've to follow all the rules
Just because they own a manhood
Sugar-coated statements
Underrated sentiments
Navigated directions
Untruthful dereliction
This is how they served me love
I got trapped a few times and felt the rough
But they were in the habit of playing bluff with such poor guff
And this is how I made myself tough
After a hot chase of dreams
I learnt how to resist the inner screams
So I let out all my creations
And got indulged in my fancy temptations!!!
Your searching eyes were looking elsewhere
when the storm clouds came rolling in
They coveted someone else's treasured heart
You didn't warn me of the danger
looming on the near horizon
Furthermore, you didn't even tell your best friend
Angry dark skies
reveal your hidden buried lies
I was sold a shipment of counterfeit art
But this fake portrait of yourself
was the most damning piece of all
All this time, I thought you really did care
This relationship is shipwrecked,
there's nothing more to say
Your dereliction of duty
put our love in harm's way
Roiling turbulent skies
swiftly caught me by surprise,
as you abandoned this sinking relationship
And every captain who's set out to sea
accept the consequences of neglect fully
So must I now, standing on the prow,
with regrets drowning words of forgiveness
trapped in sealed lips
This relationship is shipwrecked,
all hope got tragically castaway
It was your dereliction of duty,
your uncaring neglect that doomed us,
and put our once buoyant love in harm's way
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