tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669 (are we there yet?) kokopelle 2019-04-14T02:31:18Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669:918427 2019-04-14T02:30:57Z 2019-04-14T02:31:18Z contemplative public 0 The poem “The Unearned” is about leaving a place of privilege when an identity, not congruent with the past experience, is embraced.<br /><br /><br />The Unearned<br /><br />The unearned becomes a trap<br />blessings stacked all too high<br />vanishing as the bridge collapsed<br />or toppled down to cruelly smash<br />reliance becomes the drug of choice<br />supporting making of the bucks<br />but consider the side-affects<br />sanity lost as the sad result<br /><br />look to privilege as the beast<br />waiting to attack with savage glee<br />those who step outside of bounds<br />no longer favored as in the past<br />what was given may be lost<br />when the monsters decide to fight<br />against the one that has betrayed<br />the vaunted rules that none convey<br /><br />reliance upon that edge<br />cutting holes once abused<br />imbued by a knife that's now dread<br />as the edges slice the flesh<br />benefits blessed by circumstance<br />stoke the fires that now burn<br />destruction from the coal of warmth<br />consuming all the group distrusts<br /><br />the past acquaintance is abhorred<br />by the prisoners of power’s game<br />they still exist in the heights<br />condemning those who dwell below<br />crisis stoked at the end<br />condemning those who stepped away<br />now the trenches are the home<br />to the lost no longer found.<br /><br />© 2019. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20190412.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kokopelle&ditemid=918427" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments