New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes

New Classic Poems
The Dark Side
Villanella Nervosa
Zachariah Wells
They say that it's a rage to order.
First chaos, like grains of sand, seeps in
Then troops are mustered at the border
To hold at bay the dark marauder:
It's as much what stays out as what one keeps in
That defines this particular rage to order.
Line up each bite on the plate like a soldier
On a white field he lives, fights and finally sleeps in
As he struggles to breach the enemy's border.
(In this bone house you are merely a boarder.
This is a dwelling that nobody weeps in:
It's against the rules of the rage to order.)
The so-called experts name it disorder
And mobilize wolves decked out in sheepskin
To harry the opposite side of the border.
Skin shrinkwraps bone tight at the shoulder
While head and gut conspire to heap sin
Upon sin. Please—surrender your rage to order,
Let peace-keepers trickle in over the border.
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