Tears

For over a hundred years, our blood poured, following a mass extinction. As what was once ours, now gone forever.

A culture

Lost in a bottomless sea

And the terror

Never

Surprises—me

For one path traded another one learned

Just to survive in a society we never inherited

Rather, forced fed, fattening our livers

Then, served with truffles

—For dinner

To those cannibals with no breath just a nefarious motive

No remorse,

Spreading their cancer from one limb to the next organ,

Leaving the sole survivors to figure out a solution

While struggling—

To rekindle our lost treasure

In an age,

Where being lost is the identity,

Which has replaced the normalcy

With immorality,

Costing our children more than loose change and unpaid mortgages,

Winding up on the streets, begging corner-to-corner

Until another century is gone

And, still struggling to make ends meet On two ten feet

Slabs of brick, which is a stark contradiction

On two entirely different continents

Like shattered, glass of shards

And man made ponds

For generic slabs of meat

And wheat—

That glows in the dark

Meanwhile, our children, children’s, children,

Barely remember

A time better

When seasons, brewed up such festive memories

Now, stolen

By those—

Crooked politicians, daringly mendacious,

Preaching we could own a piece of this crown,

—Too, realizing now

The game was rigged, and we’re only getting the hand-me-downs

So, cross that bridge

Far from home. In reverse,

Far from the only source—of comfort

But, forced inland

For reasons my mind can’t begin

To process

And that’s how history repeats itself

So listen.

Or, you’ll find yourself,

Giving your soul for fool’s gold,

Another worthless incentive,

Especially in this digital world

Where hope is just a bad word,

Which doesn’t exist anymore.