Ambient Stream

Ambient Stream   1/23/2015

Drilled down

And filed away

Only to be covered over

Will secrets and lies. 

We are driven

And then we are used

As victims are lured

And cut off at the knees.

Some think it’s better

If they never look to long

As they calmly smoke a cigarette

After soaking up the blood.

But if you want to see

Then you have to question

And if you want to change

Then you have to seek.  

You can think this way

Or you can think that

But if you can’t see the problem

Then nothing will work.  

There are many things

That no one has heard

Explained away and hidden

Right under your nose.  

We know but do nothing

And we feel but swallow it down

Sighing outwardly

And dying inwardly

Another day up

And another day down. 

Someone else was taken

And someone else was lost

All of it unnecessary

And all of predictable. 

Protected by the thinnest of margins

We live in decline and decay

Blind victims of vanishing morays

And sunk in the canal. 

We hunch our backs

And lower our heads

Stumbling forward

Into the valley.