Salem

Salem                          6/8/2017

We are all

Crabs in a bucket

Clawing at nothing

With no way out. 

Climbing at the hill

And then falling back

None of us king

And all of us

Cooked. 

Envious and shallow

We reflexively thrash

Competing against nothing

And tangled

In a mass. 

Everyone

Wants to win

And strives

To succeed. 

Postured

Against others

We try to stand out

Each vying for attention

Pointless and dumb. 

But when someone

Climbs out

Everyone becomes angry

Unable to grasp

Undeserved blessings.

By grace we live

And with love

We survive

The gift freely given

But rarely understood.

We are blessed

In so many ways

But our minds block it out

As we struggle

Against the wind. 

More free than we know

We spend our time

In pointless disputes

Wasting our time

Selfish and dumb. 

Endlessly talking

And endlessly accusing

All of it

About nothing

Nothing at all. 

Twisting into a pretzel

They all seek to blame

Hating the good

And hating the truth. 

Desperately latching on

To imaginary crimes

While the world burns

And bleeds.