Penance

Penance                                    10/11/2018

Another day

And another night

Closer and closer

To the minute

And the hour. 

In and out

Up and down

The dead piled up

And carted away. 

Many lose hope

And many fall away

Giving in

And giving up.  

Pulled down

In pulled back

The silent desperation

Of a world

Gone insane. 

Alcohol, drugs

And suicide

The forgotten

Die off

Poor and pointless. 

You don’t hear much

About this kind of problem

Because for those in power

It was always

The goal. 

Selling us out

Without opportunity

All of it on purpose

And all of it planned. 

None of it

By accident

And none of it

Inevitable. 

The facilitated decline

Of that we were

All that they built

And all that we loved. 

Far worse

Than anyone guessed

The evil in high places

For treason and death. 

A reckoning is coming

And penance will be paid

All the way forward

And all the way back.