Duplicity

Duplicity 6/27/2014

Deadly and depressing

Is the soul crushing normalcy

As we sit in boxes

Staring at a screen.

Like a weight on your head 

And a rope around your neck

Leaving you dangling, hopeless

Dumb and dead.

 

There is beauty everywhere

But there is also death

As we seek to destroy

Everything we can.  

But, I am also destroyed

And, I am nothing but a scab

Picked, raw

And starting to ooze. 

You could call it anything

But, that doesn’t change a thing

And just because it can be justified

Doesn’t make it right. 

They say, we are free

But conformity is the game

As the outliers are conditioned

Or eliminated.

If anyone should dare to challenge

The fabricated status quo

Then they must be crazy

And marginalized.

Dust settles

And the decades pass

But we remain

Dying every day.

We will be used

And we will be forgotten

Thrown away like an old tool

Rusted and crumbling to pieces.

But so also will be the mighty

And so also will be the elite

Because it was all fake

And make believe. 

Unearned and undeserved

The dumb and the crass

As we all limp off a cliff

With their head in our ass.

More than you think

And more than we know

Victory is decided

By virtue

And not by numbers. 

Others have come

And others have gone

But now is the time

To look before you leave.

Be ready and be aware

Because the barn door is open

And no one will care to protect

The good and the few. 

Let them spend their fury

And let  them wallow in bile

Because in the end

They shall come up short

And fall where they stand.