55 Days

55 Days            8/9/2018

The days drag on

Down the hole

And around the corner

Minute after minute

And hour after hour. 

Life a journey

Born asleep

And waking up

In the smallest of degrees

Day by day.

The childish dreams

Are all but gone

But the magic of love

Burns forever. 

Much has been lost

By many over time

Headstone after headstone

Foot after foot

For nothing at all.

Centuries of deception

All come down to zero

The final countdown

Closer than we think. 

Secrets and lies

Told countless times

Will never be true

No matter how often said

Or how often used. 

In debt over our heads

And districted by horror

We dodge the bombs

And jump through hoops. 

Too tired to fight

And too poor to quit

Rats in the maze

Run till we drop. 

Evil lurks in the shadows

And evil murders at will

The evil soulless few

Bathing in blood. 

God only knows

All they have done

The imposters and parasites

Raging at the light.

See them lie

And see them scurry

Like roaches in the basement

Running to escape. 

Make no mistake

Who it is

And what they want

You and me dead

And gone forever. 

But here we are

Born in the nick of time

The first of the last

And last of the first. 

The few who still remember

The last glimpses of them

The world they destroyed

By omission and design. 

Now is the time

Before it’s too late

A time to choose

And decide. 

He will not

Force himself

So we must choose him

By name and request

The unshakeable faith