Oblivion

Oblivion

Suddenly I’m fingertips hanging off the abyss

There’s nothing to see for its all amiss

This maze of no exit but cheek cracking dead ends

Bedrock shattering and the decline to death

The future holds no youth but balding grey heads and sickness

Humanity’s inevitable curve of renewal until the nuclear buttons are pushed

How pathetic, this self-made threat

Deliberate forgetting and pretense that the future is always bright

Look around at the dictatorships that oppress and punish

Then declare there’s divinity to save and flourish

Where was She when they came for those in Berlin, Warsaw and Phnom Penh?

Witness the death of sublime nature and the rise of evil stature

Is it time to hide or stem the horde tide?

Inevitable human spirit that knows death but sees only life

What about the lonely that populate the cracks?

For they see reality thru’ the present mist and cry