Mirrored Tunnel Vision
by Odin Roark


How attentive their focus
on being right,
negating errors,
oblivious of the lessons awaiting.

Smilingly

They persuade those without need,
praise others to realize agendas,
offer affections to mask their own pain.

Fearfully

They hoard the bounty,
hide their secrets,
lest they betray their cowardice,
while others live beside dumpster survival.

Carefully

They prepare their person,
perfume their pores of guilt,
parade their masquerade aglow,
present their razor sharp creases.

Dishonestly

They walk with an insipid aura of calm,
assuming impunity even as they create
consuming torrents beneath their feet
an effort to drown all who resist.

Survival

Requires defeating the solipsists in lock step
as they invent yet their next delusion of immortality,
their mirrored tunnel vision rapidly narrowing into
a very exclusive and perverse infinity.