Here we be yet again
Rote routine
Forced reality
Clicking on the favorite
defense mechanisms
we wrap ourselves in
to make it through
yet another endless day
with minimum pain
A safety hedge against the risk
of rotating variables unknown
Saying the same old things
to the same old faces
in this brave new virtual
ZOOM community
The spirit atrophies
in this vacuum
of social deprivation
as options dwindle
on our islands
suffocating in isolation
Time has stalled
Days now blurred
The calendar burns
Waiting for a rescue package
to bail us out of this misery
we will all look back on
and laugh at someday
The village elders are assembled
at the cemetery outside of town
Stale refreshments are served
on this once hallowed ground
Compliments
of the gun toting hosts of this dance
The Progress Squad
are charged with the patriotic task
to force the vanquished to face the facts
about a transition opportunity
A once in a lifetime chance
to exit this weary existence
with a shred of dignity intact
Fake negotiations have been tried
Coercive means will now be applied
Even staler pronouncements are made
by the revolutionary captain
Informing the chained prisoners
that they are no longer part of the plan
The elderly are simply too cost ineffective
A drain on our great economy
They are the scapegoats of yesterday
The lame who are slowing down the herd
Charred wreckage to be cleared
Humane arrangements have been made
Just sign on the bloody line
Shovels and coffins will be supplied
To bury this obsolete generation
as if they were never here
Mired in this pandemic
of virally toxic grudges
the unrelenting relics
of this damn existence
torment our sorry asses
like an oozing pus infection
All the ancient prejudices
now broadcasting across multiple platforms
on receptive global negative frequencies
Biases we can't seem to lose
Such is the dark course we choose
Riding the snarling horse of the Apocalypse
A beast destined to one day wreck us
Henceforth...
we are now stripped
of all past arrogance
and misguided pretense
of our tribe's thread superiority
from the impartial ravages
of the consistently insidious
natural unraveling process
For it seems in the end
after all our proclamations
about national exceptionalism
we were nothing more
than a mushed up mountain
of mismatched socks
randomly strewn across the floor
The beast we do so fear
owns the darkness
we gotta traverse through
to get to the light
waiting patiently for us on the other side
Today the beast is dominating
Seemingly growing exponentially
Feeding off our despair
Spewing out the ignorance
and false narratives
that drive every panic
History has taught us
time and time again
the only way to defeat this beast
is to leverage our strength in numbers
A coordinated intelligent counter assault
on the forces of darkness
over running our position currently
For you see
it's up to you and me
my besieged bunker mates
to fight through the fog of self pity
Once our enemy's cover is blown
we can slay the insidious Beast
Bury the monstrous Unknown
Celebrate the cessation of calamity
Return to what passes for normalcy
Though we gotta remain vigilante
to the unsettling reality
that the dark beast of the Unknown
will rise again some day
