Reality Bites

back in the closet off the main hall,

the almost adults b***h and complain

about how the path to adulthood is spent

in a building where conformity is demanded

over actual learning

but add two decades worth of time

to all the players involved and you

realize the old saw plays on from

the speakers

life is politics

life is personalities

life is love, loss and laughter

life is death and depression

dank, dark and dour

time stretches on

attitudes remain stagnant

people never file taxes

and overdose on opioids

and the impression remains,

the theme stays firmly in place

Western Civilization is sick and

on a logarithmic slide into oblivion

and needless complication is born

from naturalistic complexity

from one state to another,

the same cash is paid for services

but the formulas used to make zero

balances make even the most

numerically astute cower in fear

because taxation is theft and

a compelling force must be used

to ensure balance reconciliation

and the population accepts the

tradition that taxation is the price

the population pays for living in a

civilized, centralized, collectivized

society openly, willingly, basically

the water of life in a way

dark water

dank water

sewer water

we pump it away because the

compelling force demands to be so

yet it demands payment and a

paperwork filing on our part to

ensure payment was complete

a joke no comedian could write

but that's how it all falls

we complain and do nothing

because it all matters not anyway

we are called human beings after all

because we are just being, not doing

human doings is a moot point,

an oxymoronic musing since

we are humans doing nothing

reality bites 

and so on 

so it goes

Author's Note

Pfffft blah! Yeah, this bites.

Reviews

[APOORVA]

life is politics
life is personalities
life is love, loss and laughter
life is death and depression
DEEP, INTENSE, OBSERVED AND CLASSY
BEAUTIFUL

[Kenneth The Poet]

Thank you very much.