Yawning ennui,
this clamorous paralysis
Persists despite analysis
performed hourly.
Contorted-conscience-compass misdirects,
deflects
Rejects the object
lurid luminescent
In its promised remedy.
“Simplicity itself” they say
sneering smug and well adjusted
Dustbowl dry and unconfronted
by insistent urgency-
compulsion; disobey
Superfluous solutions
Pose prostrate and all akimbo
Sprawling whorish low as limbo
Plea for purchase dissolute
Seek sensation’s solace-
Novelty’s a salve for shame-singed souls.
No one on the shore wants
the seashells she said that she once sold.
Reminiscences of chances
Plucked-ripe-juice-drenched full fruition
Never walking always dancing
Elegance despite attrition.
Underestimate in peril
Gravitational kinship
An addict’s heart is always
At the lip of slippy precipice.
Limerance, proximity,
distraction through debauchery,
Spellbound in saucy sorcery
You seek a deeper bliss.
First the thirst for knowledge leads you
Secrets of the world to learn.
Just as Lilith found in darkness
Brighter still the want-flame burns.
Shadows deeper draw you onward
Action now; or be entranced
Plants and fungus line the walkway
Dust and rocks draw askance glance.
Stirring footsteps raise the will-wraith
Whisperings of endless odds
Of chance of victory; of glory
Snatched from jaws of gloating gods.
Particles of promise glister
In the swirling shafts of light
Piercing folio domed cathedral
Heaven glimpsed in hell's despite.
Nihilistic, siren slickness,
inconsistent synergistic
Hedonistic, solipsistic,
justifies deficient logic
All roads lead you back to sickness
Healing path left overgrown.
Seeds long sown bloom unattended
Rotting heavy on the boughs.
Malodorous, bellaputrescent
Break the spell of unrepentance
Visions clarity acceptance
Choose the future. Change the present.
Turn away from temptress dancing
Tend the harvest, toil the earth.
Undertake the acts of grounding
Break the ancient inbuilt curse.
Why would you want to be
What you were when you
Wanted to be what you are now?
Why would you want to be
What you were when you
Wanted to be what you are now?
