Useless

Useless           6/21/2017

Useless as a dirty rag

Indifferently dropped

And then forgotten

Lost to time

Worthless and limp. 

That is the feeling

Much worse than hatred

To be forgotten

And wasted.

Some will hate

With searing intensity

But what is worse?

Than to be casually

Discarded

Like a Kleenex.

The feeling stays

With me

An invisible burn

Inside my head.

I cannot forget it

And though I walk

I am damaged

And reduced.

A worm

In the shadows

Of darkness

Dragging myself over glass

Slow and painful.  . 

Follow the razor

And maybe you might see

The stunning reality

For you

And for me. 

That in the end

To them

We are nothing

Nothing but a commodity

And a burden. 

Praised when needed
And jettisoned at will

The individual reminders

Lost along the way. 

Kept lowly

By the gatekeepers

And the fake elite

Managers instead of leaders

One dimensional cutouts

Venal and dim.

People keep talking

But all of it

Is nothing

Sinking deeper and deeper

Into dust. 

Measuring this

And measuring that

We track and we grow

All of it useless

And dead in the snow. 

Once I dreamed

And once I planned

But all of it was a lie

And all of it a joke. 

Nothing but

An evaporated mist

Rising up

And blown away. 

We live

And we lose

Unaware

Of the meaning. 

Slotted in

And slotted out

In an ever tightening

Channel

Heading for something

We do not understand.    

Unprepared and unaware

We do not know

Who to ask

And what

To believe.   

But even in loss

The good still win

Because they know who

And they know how.