Dark Deep

Dark Deep                                        3/31/2016

It is a bitter root to chew

To see how far you have fallen

Diminished, reduced,

Humiliated and ashamed.

I think and I imagine

How it could have been different

If I had really had a chance

And if I had never lost.

Would I know more?

Or would I know less?

Protected, safe

Indulged and asleep.

I did not know to fear

So I did not see it coming

The horrible creeping death

Squirming in the shadows.

Befriending me

And sizing me up

Analyzing for weakness

And tracking my every move. 

Lying, trying, and cajoling

While I walked in my sleep

Moving his eyes side to side

Just to see

What I would do. 

Slipping out the knife

And going in for the kill

At just the right moment

When she got tired

And resentful.

Once I felt the sting

It was already too late

Fatally wounded

And gasping for air. 

But it was not enough

To take what I had

Because evil is never content

With what it steals.

Willing to do anything

To crush and to win

Always seeking to prove

Their lie was true.

Disgusting, low

Repulsive and vile

The liars win

Any way they can.    

Selling out their friends

And betraying the innocent

Long gone by the time

The victims

Learn and know. 

Fake images

And empty words

Meaningless without action

And empty without truth. 

The empty men

Are all around

One dimensional profiles

Packaged and sold. 

But deep down

They are far more than that

Thinly disguised wolves

Drooling at our neck. 

For money and power

They seek control

And by dumbing us down

They will never be exposed. 

We are the disenfranchised

Sold out for money

Betrayed, diluted

And circling the drain. 

They have killed many  

And ground them in the dirt

So full of themselves

They think

They are gods.

Saving their worst

For any who would dare

Shine a light on their duplicity

For everyone to see. 

Now it is here

The few against the many

Awaken lest you sleep

Buried forever

In the great dark deep.