Ripe

Ripe                   5/30/2019

Buried

And reburied

The truth sleeps

Deep in the mud.

Covered up

And covered over

Expendable lives

Sleep in silence. 

The world rolls over

And shudders

Under the weight

Of time

And deception.

Ripening in the sun

The long awaited fruit

The sign of the times

For all who see

And all who hear. 

I saw it

In my dreams

The mighty edifice

Collapse upon itself.

A chain of events

Set off by the smallest

Of errors

One collision

And then another.    

Heavier and heavier

Murder upon murder

Elaborately concealed

From the innocent

And deluded. 

Justified with lies

And endless propaganda

Layer upon layer

Ever thicker

And heavier.

Metal on metal

Concrete and glass

All that we built

To cover up

A lie. 

A slow moving

Disaster

Unfolding in degrees

All of predictable. 

Come up

And get out

Far enough away

To see it

All fall down.