This, That And The Other

This hoping to achieve collectively What we fail at singly, so mis’rably Of a common goal, a shared eventuality In a time of exceptionalism and individuality Of indulging the blown ego’s fragility Allowing for a resuscitated rigidity To create and foment dissent around identity Parade division as a natural form of humanity That lone wolf proudly uncompromising The single mother’s determination realising The contrite elder’s conviction in proselytising Of the youthful vigour in rebellious uprising And not marking space for community Forsake the need for that essential opportunity To share an understanding of the incongruity Of the denial of patterns of perpetuity Of a rejection of the furrows of fluidity Pleading a passion for the heralded hereditary An authenticated lack of accountability Parading piously as a co-morbidity The quotes and metaphors in our thinking Pretence if the barren and the base not shrinking The constancy even of at the fount drinking Oblivious to the increase of the waters’ inking * Other hearts break like mine,the continuity Elsewhere also the sun only sometimes shining More budgets lacking in life-saving annuity Empty purses and dark clouds the silver lining Everywhere the betrayal of immunity The skeleton’s minions feasting at dining The ironic alone of paradoxical proximity And a possible future not jinx by divining SP