Things to Shun

(A lyric maybe?)

Expectation
Extrapolation
Confuses the reality
Humiliation
Degradation
Leaves their muddy mark

And I see
The distant smoke
A life surrendered
To degeneracy
And I feel
The dragon’s breath
A dragging down
To despondency

Exaggeration
Misinformation
Blinds us to the light
Capitulation
Acceptation
Binds us to the night

And I touch
The velvet glove
A silky grasp
Of dependency
And I sense
The pleasing pull
A warming choke
Of complacency

Demarcation
Segregation
Divides us from ourselves
Confrontation
Escalation
Rises to a fiery flame

And I hear
The warning sounds
Blaring loud
The emergency
But I know
The time is past
And there can be
No transcendency

All in a moment
A life is gone
Though curiously
A shell remains
A brilliant flash
The spirit’s fled
Leaving behind
Dead eyes staring

John Thompson
February 9, 2009