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Hardships Butter

by Michaelw1two

 The stars of society,
 great notion once did scintillate;
 their glow burned too fast,
 ash, cinder, sloth, agnominate;
 what, gifted fate's skewers,
 sole reply, a dross adumbrate;
 life, guts all souls;
 death's head did spirit ablaqueate.

 Court not, the rule in justice,
 culpability is the blame;
 where evil spread, ascribe strife's Id
 as quoting Boehme;
 earth, is food for worm,
 demands flesh to whet its loam;
 mankind in greedy lust,
 curst promise, to dream venomed.

 If justice, is synonym for bread,
 equality is its spread;
 they, are symmetry to life
 and health in living's thread;
 fed to profiteering few,
 who cause, life's morbid dread;
 they, will feast to death,
 for earth, leave not a shred.

 Life's cauldron steams,
 beneath fires we can't control;
 sought, is gentry's sweet butter,
 democracy's decontrol;
 fed on schisms,
 palates satiated by life's slop bowl;
 rejecting meals context,
 and savor rubric of future whole.

 Survival, quenches thirst, of each
 who seek life's bread;
 hardship futile postulate,
 hungry souls crave words said;
 tasty freedom's tout,
 cannot be minced by thirst misled;
 each, will eat, this buttered bread,
 or all, will wind up dead.

Jan 2010

Copyright © Michael Walkerjohn




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