Face to Face

Face to Face  12/19/2019

I must have walked

A thousand miles

Up and down

Streets of gray. 

Circuitous wanderings

Threading the city  

Stuck in a rut

Of concrete and steel.

Glass monuments

Rise up around me

Full of people

And pointless

Ambitions. 

I used to walk

With her

Side by side

11 to noon.  

But now I am alone

And I am changed

No longer normal

And no longer

Asleep.

Forever altered

Where normalcy is fake

The weak sauce

Of liars

And posers. 

They smile

And they pretend

Unaware of death

And sudden horror.

Closer than they think

It lurks a step behind

Always ready

And always scheming. 

Evil men

Magnify themselves

Soulless vessels

That can never be filled.

Always boasting

And always promising

Anything to win

And anything to steal. 

But someday

They will stumble

And someday 

They will fall

Into the very trap

That they have set. 

And there will be

No one to help

And no one

To swindle.

Dead level guilty

For every lie

And every theft

At last accountable

Face to face

With God.