Dark Thoughts

Vaccination

  

Inoculated to the volatility

The violence and hostility

Bred for the inevitability

Of ever encroaching death,

Desensitized to the violence

Sporadically overcome by shyness

Confronted by our own blindness

We choose a weaker lens.

We’re scared we’re being cosseted

Afraid we’re being closeted

With the monsters of our youth

Or worse, with just ourselves

Our private living hells

Our tempests and our summer swells
Security  sacrosanct
Mandated by the file and rank

Protected for protection’s sake

Or so we’re always told

And so we're always cold.

Maybe the greatest tragedy

Is that we’re immune to gravity

Believing we can sail over the travesties

That disfigure cosmic tapestries

Until the threads of fate unwind

And refine the sands of time

Panning out the gold

And leaving only silt

A dagger buried to the hilt

And guilt.

Maybe love is just a jilted dream

All's fair in love and war
Became all's fair when wanting more
Hearts on every distant shore
Rise and fall with each discord
Until there's no more love,
There's only war
And happy trigger fingers.