Neverlution
Get In Line
Incongruities, deceptive
Unite unseen
In between
But most come out defective
.
Of the countless thousands and millions
Of all the trials and rigors
Running in denial with scissors
A single mote wafts into the pavilion
.
The lottery player Sisyphus
Still must fight uphill
To survive the right anthill
And gain purchase with the rest of us
.
Extinction may be forever
But there's always a face
Ready to take the place
Of someone proven less clever
.
There will always be another Elvis
Announced, leaving the building
Wearing caped, accoutered gilding
That cannot save, from themselves, the feckless
.
Everyone's in the continuum
We're all in line
One at a time
But new cheaters'll always cut in
.
As the world continues revolving
Some people stay on with rotation
But others fall off from negation
Life's Tetris continues evolving
.
So never say never in reflection
To be
Or not to be
You have no special protection
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned church in Hull, MA. (Phase I was New Orleans and everything that entails. Hippocampus, behave!
https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/
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Phenomenal work! Keep the excellence going—congrats!
Congratulations on your top story. 
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Congratulations on Top Story, well deserved!
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This is fabulous. Congrats on the TS.
Excellent Top...Poem! And you might like this: https://www.webarnes.ca/2009/08/the-next-stage-of-evolution/
So many good lines that ring true. Congratulations
Thanks, vocal.media, for this Top Story label.
Wow! What more can be said about this grounded in reality stream of words. Well done indeed, Gerald.
Not sure how I missed this one, Gerard. Thanks to Doc Sherwood on the Raise Your Voice thread for sending me here. Respect his opinion enormously and he has waxed lyrical about this so had to check it out. Agree with everything he said.
"Life's Tetris continues evolving". I really loved this line. It's soooo deep and true! Fantastic poem!