Razor Sharp Creases

How attentive our focus
on being right
negating errors
oblivious of the lessons awaiting

Smilingly

We persuade those without need
praise to realize agendas
offer affections to mask
our own pain

Fearfully

We horde the bounty
while others live beside dumpster survival
hide our secrets lest they betray our cowardice

Carefully

We prepare our person
perfume our pores of guilt
parade our costume aglow
present our razor sharp creases

Unknowingly

We walk into the insipid pool of calm
assuming impunity
even as the knowing torrents beneath our feet
prepare the vortex for darkened conscience

Eyes seal shut

As we flail helplessly
at our own making
a species in free fall
overcome by hubris
satiated with waste
knowing not the obvious