Disentangle

A Blank Verse poem from 2016

I scan the caustic words you’ve written down

Outraged I want to smash you in the face

You’re so self-centred, smug, you think you’re great

Your bile spews out, you’re baiting for a fight

Ravage your wicked heart in cold combat

My words reach out and grab you by the throat

We tussle over ether then collapse

Dread overwhelms my soul, I cry, I cry

Oops, I did it again, I got involved

In mad, moronic war that was not mine

The dark remorse descends, now I resolve

Subsequent imbeciles to leave alone

Emotion must o’ercome bleak, grinding gloom

Anew I start, I blow black clouds away

I subjugate the s(l)ap that seems to rise

Depart the self-destructing paths I paced

Deep breath, calm mind, arouse compassion high

Inside pray bitterly for enemies

Feign kindness till it germinates new life

Retreat from confrontation for Mind’s sake

And so the world turns if I speak or no

And so dim-witted, insubstantial noise

Vanishes into black holes of raw wind

And see, the universe grinds ever on