The Last Recluse

Couple Lefts

6-11-21

Who's wrong? Who's right?
There's more than two truths in sight.
I can't fight what I can't believe
but if you can see, then I can see
that this is stronger than make-believe.
And when you see it coming it's easy
to perpetrate deviation of the unseen.
If you're not ready I can't help ya
when you think the world's Helter Skelter.
Grab your mask, grab a flask, take five;
feel unasked to be alive.
This isn't how we planned it
so reroute the course of misunderstanding.

         read the message
         breathe the evidence
         teach the method
         kill the messenger

There's a simple kind of solution
         (that's right) that some look at as pollution
but the population still deals with unrest
like every day brings a new distress.
One wrong turn and you're gone.
Miss a breath, miss your song
being sung by the wrong jury.
         Hurry, hurry! The public scurries
when too many truths are mishandled
and we don't need more scandals.
How many lives don't have to matter
until the scatter values more than chatter?

         read the message
         breathe the evidence
         teach the method
         kill the messenger

There's not much left you can't endure
when your time is spent insecure
of how your life circles.
But living isn't swirling and twirling.
Make sense of the chances
or chance sense making you ashes
in a pit your destiny disbelieved.
You underachieved and now you're a seed
hopefully for someone's knowledge,
which you refused to acknowledge.
Ride hard and be unspoken for
while we all move on perpendicular.

         read the message
         breathed the methods
         choked on the evidence
         messenger killed

Long Poem, Free Verse


Best Biographical