Chains

Henpecked, Hardboiled, uptight and erstwhile
There’s a broken link
In the chain of life
Where deadly words breed vicious things
For without the sadness, solace would never sing

Berated, besmirched, bedazzled, be dead
There’s a broken fence
In this yard we tend
Where now our wall is open wide
a rift that won’t outlast the coming tide

Gluttony and greed; Impatience and need
Jealousy and jade; Sacrifice betrayed
Sins sorely earned, remind each, the misery’s made

A domino in a pinwheel haze
A manhole cover in a perplexed state
Wonton travails and lacking none
Ever so slowly, rings high, the shrapnel of a smoking gun

Diagnoses incomplete
Nightmares upon your sea of dream
Setting sail to steer the course
Impelling you toward expirations force

Car-crashed, Collapsed, Crushed and Concussed
Tinfoil patrons of a tinny turn, shining in sparkled trance
Where glittering mares whinny and neigh, forever altering the semblance of the everyday

There’s a broken link in the chain of command
Where false-fed improprieties are delivered to mouth,
Deceptions we must obey or be exiled away
To a far away domain, might be better, but we believe is
Bad, for that, is all the propaganda shows us as

There’s a broken link in the chain of life
Where calamity smiles with its omniscient smirk of strife
Where paralyzed visions remind and tend
To the sated depressions deeply a-rest in the sadness of our strongest men
…leaving forgiveness and the forward march
as flights of fancy, be toys alone, for the fantastical and mad