Patterns

Questions aren’t unasked nor dignified,
they’re painted on the cave walls
in their stark painful context, frozen
in exhibition of their endorsement
Give it Back to Them
Give it back to them---
Their country maimed and reclaimed,
sterilized in iodine, fortressed,
stripped clean of nascent perceptive reason
Fodder stoked for the risk averse,
clamoring for safe keeping, and securely
clutching chemically derived commodities… (in lieu of…)
Give it back to them---
Primal and uncured,
basking in lust for fearmongering
hysteria-colored lens, encroachment of the other
Rights versus privilege, in mutual exclusivity,
in birth and bleeding,
in worship of the suckling pig…
Give it back to them---
Anesthetized psyches return,
in a revised dream deranged into order,
its religion an indivisible mass
of narrowly defined inversion
from ingrained and learned principles
into delineated acceptable outcomes…
Give it back to them---
Leaching in the well, indefensible
trails of plastic diluted and divided,
infinitely halved, invasive digestion,
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