Eclipse

Eclipse              10/17/2016

Deep dark and silent

Morning arrives

Another day

And another year.

I was asleep

And now I am awake

Blinded by lies

And burned by the sun. 

The world is heavy

And now more than ever

Pressing downward

And squeezing the sides. 

We did not know

And with that

We jumped off a cliff

Deluded and used

For anything

And everything. 

We who followed the rules

And we who believed

Pushed forward

And stabbed in the back. 

Left with the bill

And blamed for the charge

The good and the innocent

Guilty by birth

And belief. 

Some got away

And some got paid

While the rest waited

And never got saved.

Many are those

Who remember

Just on the other side

Still waiting for something

Or anything at all. 

Useful for a time

And then cut off and dead

Bumps in the road

Insulted and defamed.  

Let them all hear

And let the world see

All that was hidden

Under every table

And behind every door.