What good is intelligence
If have no common sense
Pretence
Sitting on a fence
Violence
Going to war with no defence
Offense
No supported evidence
A jail sentence
Recompense
False Reverence
Nonsence
Intolerance
Illegal substance
Pestilence
Past tense
No essence
No eloquence
Incontinence
Impotence
Excess expense
Vengeance
False Innocence
Artificial intelligence
Lavish decadence
Inconsiderence
Ignorance
Exclusiveness
Ecsesivnece
Unrighteousness
Selfishness
Insurgence
Jeliusness.
Helplessness
Nontenderness
Eroded confidence
Incognerance
Harshness
Unruliness
Apprehensioousess
Our hands were restless
holding detectives brooms
with hope of sweeping storms
And our isolation have been exchange
with ecstasies
lurking around medallion of ease
to wind off doldrums from our feet.
Alas! Our ears had forgotten their fiendish
songs
& sundered our head from our neck;
plucking sad remix with tobaccos pipe.
Shall we forget this brooms
that swept our joy, & dust our dreams
into the turbulent zephyr?
Shall we cook the ears
that sold our head to affliction
in the pot of its unruliness?
Flexing, the leaves, like iron
Tortured by constant upheaval
Grasping at the edge with
Fading will and wanting strength
Stubbornness, a pawing bull
In the brunt of swirling
Winds brought from beyond
The future horizon shining
In expanding glory
Watching as the leaves
Remain like iron.
Purely by desire, they remain
Like a bubbling river pressured
Above its banks without letting go.
No law contains unruliness as
The leaves, flexing, like iron,
Remain.
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