Cold Passage

Cold Passage   3/18/2014

It was never easy

And it’s not easy now

But that is the difference

Between perseverance

And arrogance.

If you put nothing in

And get everything out

What will happen in the end

When you wind up empty

And vain. 

As obvious as the sun

The stupidity of man

Always sucking off someone else

And taking everything he can. 

So what are we to do?

Now that we have seen

And now that we know

The difference between

Good and bad,

Right and wrong.

Now there can be no excuse

And now there can be no regret

But only the here and now

To do all we can.

There is no time to waste

Because those days are gone

As we slowly creep by

Ice bergs in the water.

The worst part

Is beneath the surface

Unseen and unknown

Bigger than what you see

And much more deadly.

Some are slaughtered

Whether we notice or not

While others are tortured

And dumped in the dirt.

In the middle of the night

The heavy silence persists

In spite of the screams

And all of the lies. 

It’s not okay

Not then

And not now

As we shuffle our feet

On our way to the end. 

Too careful to live

And too dumb to see

We give up in small degrees

Everything that matters

One, two, three.

But the truth persists

In the back of our minds

As our numbers dwindle

And our memory fades.

No excuses

And no apologies

Not here

Not now

Not ever.