Ship of Fools

 Ship of Fools 12/19/2014

Life is worth nothing

Without courage
and Convictions

Nothing but a clump of cells

Eating, and dying.

If you run

Your enemies are emboldened

And what good are friends

When you are abandoned,

And undefended. 

It gets worse

But never better

As the snake tightens its coils

Around all our necks. 

For some,

Nothing has changed

But they live on borrowed time

And by the time, they wake up

It’s already too late. 

A whole world has disappeared

But some, don’t even know

Glued to glowing screens

Reflecting lives

That were never true at all. 

The streets are boarded up

And what was once quaint

Is now a war zone

Slowly rotting from neglect  

And decay. 

The signs are alien

And the people guarded

Hurrying down empty sidewalks

Past long neglected Victorians

Crumbling before our eyes.

We are silent

And good to a fault

Following the rules

That kill us

Every single day. 

The children cry out

But we do not hear

Numb to the violence

All the time,

And everywhere.

Lord, we are waiting

As I add up, all their names

Trying hard to remember

Each and every one.

Save us, from this evil

Growing like a tumor

Infecting everything

And everyone.

Come quickly

And rescue what is left

As even now, you hold the good

In the palm of your hand.