Dark

Should remember to edit, my last one was all run together and did not come out right.   I did not notice until today.    Will rewrite "anonymous" one of these days.   

Dark 9/2/2014

Some people ride in a cattle car

On their way to the end

While others kneel in a ditch

And whisper one last prayer.

You can bet on stupidity

And set your watch

To catastrophe

All because some are just as complacent

As others are cruel.

The hatchet is raised

And we don’t do a thing

Hoping against hope

That everyone’s the same. 

But it should be no surprise 

To the few who know

That some are twice as cruel

As others are naive. 

It enough to make you sick

And double over in pain

The folly of the crude

And certifiably insane. 

For lack of imagination

The world is beige on beige

As we march on foolishly

Heads to the ground.

A bandage won’t help an earth quake

And all the money in the world

Can’t fix the foolish

Or the damned. 

The beast rests in the ditch

And waits for a chance

To suicide themselves

On a highway of death.

But we also are the meat

Offered up as fuel

Self-sacrificing munitions

Useful and dead. 

The smoke curls up

And burns in my nostrils

As we face down another day

Without asking

Or knowing.

After the sun

There is nothing but black

And after the end

There is nothing but light.