Circling of the Drain
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
With so much reason to sustain hope in youthful potential (at any age), it is dispiriting and tragic to watch so many not care. (Photo by thisiscolossal.com)
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Circling of the Drain
by Odin Roark
Worn out youth begs off aging
Entreats mirrors to be broken
For crippling lifestyles to vanish
Even as will power to control
Wans with denial’s onslaught
In and out of mind’s pleasure dome go they
Blinded by self-sabotage
Sprouting seeds succumbing
To already weed infested landscapes
How dangerous
This ever-cycling season
Where today’s sunshine
Remains so often chased
By one’s virulent storm clouds
How disheartening for some
Whose fresh opened buds of hope
Wilt with loving care’s absence
Rendering expectation’s foretaste
Ever desperate to survive
The circling of the drain
Ron
That drain image of an eye is outstanding!
budd