At twelve miles per gallon
in mid-June Arlington
the man stopped for fuel
ignoring his malfeasant
twelve-year-old son.
Six billion ants retreat
underground under duress
the sharp gaze of a boy
and his looking glass, the son
of a man wiping sweat
off his brow under duress
from solar deliverance.
5/10/2019
Categories:
malfeasant, environment,
Form: Free verse
Malfeasant, mangled, memories
ruthless, regretful, remedies.
Vanishing, victoriously in vain,
Whispering, wandering wane.
Brazenly, broken, betrayal.
Pompous, patriotic portrayal.
Diminishing, disabled I dive,
Astronomically, ailing alive.
Teetering, tenaciously taunt,
hallucinations, honorably haunt.
Painfully, preserving, its past,
Callously, crafting the cast.
Traumatically, teasing truths,
Yearning, yesterday’s youths.
Selfishly, stealing, thy soul,
Craving, courageous control.
Immobile, insufferably idle,
Suffering senses, suicidal.
Admiring, ancestors adore.
whispering rumors of war.
Beaten, blackishly, bound,
flustered faces I’ve found.
Fearlessly, frozen fabled,
defeating dose, disabled.
Categories:
malfeasant, recovery from..., sad, war
Form: Rhyme
Gliding menacingly
about the fringes of our psyche
bent on crushing compassion
it grows.
Ugly malfeasant in cause
to judge the color of skin
to create battles ‘tween beliefs
it grows
Wandering proudly
behind white masks of innocence
coldly, diligently stalking thee
it grows
Seizing tightly in its grasp
with snaking tendrils of ice
piercing body and soul complete
it grows
Corrupting entirely
guiding a most gentle man
through gates of hell incarnate
it grows
Beware my friend
who piously declares divinity
you may be taken unawares
it grows
Touch tenderly their hand
lay palm on their breast feel a beating heart
into their eyes peer deeply, see their life
it dies
Categories:
malfeasant, inspirational, introspection, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?