Belly of the Beast

Belly of the Beast                     11/28/2018

A metal fish

Sardines in a can

Inching down a freeway

Packed in sweat. 

Another day down

Slow as a slug

Dragging us along

Crippled by isolation. 

Three decades

In the belly

Of the beast

Diving deep,

Dark and dumb. 

Trapped in concrete

With two sets of rules

One for them

And one for us. 

Time crawls

And time flies

Some above

And many below.

And who are we

The ancient

And the forgotten

Long ago lost

And wandering. 

Atomized

Across distance

We suffer in silence

Always searching

But seldom found. 

Alone in the world

Of half truths

And deliberate lies

Dumbing us down

Sheep for the slaughter. 

I also

Followed the path

Hated by true enemies

But cut in half

By false friends. 

Nothing lasts forever

Inching ever closer

To what has already happened

Written in our hearts

The beginning

And the end. 

Two Fourteen

Two Fourteen              11/14/2018

Some talk of love

But do they even know

What it is

Another day down

Water under the bridge. 

For some

It is an option

Interchangeable as clothing

Worn for just a season. 

And for many

It is the path

Of least resistance

Giving up

And giving in. 

But some of us

Knew form the start

Lucky enough

With parents and family. 

Real love endures

And real love hangs on

Fiercely loyal

Even when angry

And overburdened. 

Patient under trial

Even when exhausted

Discerning truth

From lies

And good

From evil.

A gift

And a treasure

More important

Than money

The pearl of great value

Hidden in the dirt. 

I have known love

And I have known

Rejection

But woe to him

Who hurts

The humble.  

And cursed is he

Who disrespects

The loving

For he shall surely

Die twice. 

Red Flag

Red Flag              11/13/2018

Everything is fake

And none of it is real

Whatever they promote

Or try to conceal. 

Another day

And another distraction

As we slouch

Towards Armageddon

Mumbling in the dark. 

Mortally wounded

By our own kindness

Bleeding a trail

Downward fast. 

We forgot

Who we were

And we forgot

Who we serve.

Nameless soldiers

In a war against ourselves

Picked off at will

One by one.  

Happily dropping down

Curled in a fetal

Begging to be stomped

In eventual extermination. 

Now we see

In the eleventh hour

The culmination of lies

And treasonous deceit. 

The same old wailing

And the same old lies

Relentless fraud

And obvious hate. 

Now or never

We must answer the call

Better on your feet

Than begging

On your knees. 

The silent war rages

One sided and deadly

Blood drawn

Bodies down. 

Insatiable the evil

Gnawing at our corpse

Ever wandering

For a soul to steal. 

Come quickly Lord

And listen to our cry

Waiting in the trenches

To jump and to die. 

Now they mock

And now they laugh

More loyal to each other

Than the people

That they rule. 

Deep down

In the core

The pretenders

To the faith

Damned to death

The second time around. 

The same now as then

The heap praise upon themselves

Until the tables turn over

And the whole world knows.

Horror upon horror

Visited upon the innocent

All for a parasitic class

Bleeding the world. 

They shall all fall

And they shall all burn

Every lie counted

And every murder

Avenged.