Gripping drumming
Sings laterally, generically
Thum-thump-thum-thum
Screaming white, crystalline
Shaking the foundations of Heaven’s palaces
Forever flowing down
Common people shaken to their souls
Lavender shades of emotion
Trickling out into the world
To heal terror-stricken hordes
Cast into work camps by power-mongrels
Licking lips of greedy, starving faces
Morally bereft and lack lustered pinstriped suits
Ragged and homeless
Suturing the edifices of modern society
Crusts peeled back
Crusts chipped and scarred
Scorched by illusions of lavishness and decadence
Akasha teaches empathy
Caring population, souls of light
Shining beacons of quest-pondered saturation
Star-twinkling pinpoints of thought
In night realms never-ending
Souls re-emerge new, fresh
Brighter than before
Threading rapture and torture
To live longer
Forever studying re-inventiveness
Cracked carapaces sewn together
With threads of sinew
And bones shattered before Gods
And knights in hard skin
Lanced by sharpened tongues
Flicking death and murder
Wolves’ fangs and serpent-strikes
Making dexterous exercises
Paramount for survival
Quickest martial expertise
Manufactured in secret
For wars to wage
To conquer fear of fear
Fear of righteous anger
For maiden’s righteous retribution
Satisfaction
Justice preserved and touted as truth
Truth begets honesty
Social contract
Benign interest riven from castle thrones
Kings bereft of heirs
Issue democratic decrees for parliament
Votes for equality
Laughed at and scorned
Power lost to mediocre citizens
Striving for bread and water
To serve out their sentences
In peace, not pieces of failure
Scorned and hated
Secreted away in safe-houses
Under legal eyes from cameras
On every corner and in the skies
Sinking in oceans of tribulations
And careless accidents
Forking traditions of mirrored fear
Ageless Sumerian cads
Loving chaos, mayhem
Disgusting masses
Oberon and Chtulu
Calling for treasonous murderers
Assassin’s oaths to right society
For tyrants wrath
To sever legality from justice
Hero’s tragic fall into despair
Innocence lost to dogs
Warring for scraps of refuse
As if they were gold
Haunting conundrums pass daily
Forcing thoughts
Continually changing mindsets
Love instigates change
Change forces duality
Gemini-locusts eating
Ravaging faceless calamities
Prayer claiming religion-shrouded mystics
Charlatans choking on hopes, dreams, and innocence
Children play at being adults
Adults try to reclaim innocence
Lost beyond regaining
Crystal-tinged rapture
Singing melodies of peace
And tranquil, languid waters
Pondering hope and cringing
From fear of loss of innocence
Havoc-ravaging maniacs
Selling swords of rage and pestilence
That medicine cannot heal
Fear-gripped masses
Huddle in soaking ambiance
Water-logged and freezing
In Winter-frozen heaps
Frothed and symbolized
By drowning bodies
Cavorting amongst the gravestones
Of modern society
Gyrating in death-throes
And chuckling
At the ironic facets
Of lives not lived
Wasted energy spent
On frivolous meandering
Amongst sheeple and rampant regimes
Ceaselessly changing
But remaining stagnant and hopeless
Valhalla shimmering
Across the Rainbow Bridge
Lost and inaccessible
Vaulted waypoint
Illusions of truths
Pondered but dismissed
Errant minstrels
Singing praises to heroes
Undeserving of adulation
False spirits haunting scientists
Seeking to prove that
Charlatans are truths
Mislabeled as Gods
Worshipped as Devils
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Charlene Iverson