Frustration rears its peerless fear as
fearless peers move forward; unveiling
avarice and hubristic expectation
He turns away his longing gaze in a
forfeit of forbearance; while life flies
by, his skin crawls to flee the flaying
Hidden eyes can’t hide the lies, when
time torments his tender flesh; through
tempestuously violent slipstreams
The gale of failure, whips like nine tails
in flagellatory avidity; the cat rending
meat from marrow, calm from sanity
A tumultuous duplicity of right and
wrong, outspread as wide asunder as
mytikas and tartarus, divinity and villainy
Confidence slain amid folly and shame,
only himself to blame; as the raptors
pick clean his final, delusional dream
No rousing claxon, no call to action; no
coming attraction or devilish distraction;
just night and day, carrion on the carousel
art: the cage by Peterio
