Conscience

By day…

Take or be taken

Score or lose

 Ignore standards

Cheat to avoid your moral sense

Throw scruples into the punch bowl of irresponsibility

Embrace deafness of your inner voice

By night…

How cavalier some treat their inward monitor

Ignoring its endless network of informants

Until into nocturnal dreams

Arresting of your secrets disturbs your breathing

While some psyches momentarily escape by projecting

Reform school in the future

Prisons in the future

Execution of the mind

As the tossing and turning

Like an out of control car

Avoiding the looming cliff

Careens ever closer to the threat of confession

By each turn of life’s calendar…

Such people without the sense of right and wrong

Become victims of themselves

Especially on Capitol Hill