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Keith W Fletcher Aug 2017
If you take a chance and glance
           Beyond that which is called
            Extenuating circumstance.
You may see that the powers that be.  
Seek justice ..but only for a system
         That they rely on to maintain
              . ......A  status quo
          A stagnant pool of nepotism
                    Slash latent schism
                       Where division...
                ....Trumps any decision
    Where progress might find a foothold
       Where justice demands they trust US
               To control a destiny
              Once promised on paper
        That has been perverted
                            Diverted
           Until it is now a point of such
                      Vehement derision
That stagnation seems so ingrained
          That it's acceptance
               Is as routine
          As the gavels banging
    Or the detention door clanging
                 That it should rattle
                     To the very core
                        Any citizen
            Who believes in the idea of
                Freedom ,human rights
        And the pursuit of happiness
     Reality is often a hard pill to swallow
  Especially when the acidic water
                  Of the shrinking pool
              That we all inhabit.. has...
                  ...Stopped breathing
                   And is slowly dying
      While some keep denying
           That anything is wrong
                     No need to believe
                      That  trouble looms
                         On the horizon
                  So choked with smoke
     That the sun struggles to deliver
          Any promise --dusk or  dawn
         And troubled waters rise up
            In rebellious consternation
        Spilling into unfamiliar places
                             As it chases
       Destitution onto higher ground
                          Of desperation
                              And alienation
          Revelations will soon dictate
    Maybe way ..way ..too late
That hesitation is becoming as absolute
As inspired introspection is becoming obsolete
        The status quo is all they know
              Those who have the power
      To pull the world together
         But haven't got the will power
               To do anything
                   That might cause them
          To take a chance and glance
               Beyond that which we call
         An extenuating circumstance.
Keith W Fletcher Aug 2017
All the color
Stained away
Drained AwayFrom around
My monochromatic core
Becoming an abstract memory
Spreading
In a screaming ,raging silence
All across.....
....This sad and pock marked floor

In shades of grey
I make my way ...past
The last ....ornamental
Bit of sanity
I find..... before
I slip into the mist
Of uninspired ,hard wired
Usurpers....
.....of all
That lay ahead
Where dreams die
As the ordained
Squeeze hard ..then discard
Any evidencerary consideration
Left
Beyond the veil
Of the awaiting mist
Obscurity wilting away
The ubiqitous absence
That latest wisp
Of wide appeal ...for those of us
Who allow ourselves
To be drained of all color
Amid the abstract disregard
Of who we were in our own way
Conceding to become
unhearlded
retreating ghosts
Of monochromatic grey
Unadorned bits of sanity
Saluting as we pass by
On our own ....on our way
Not even credited
With the abstract decor
Left behind us ....
On the now even sadder
Pock marked floor

As it hears the screaming ,raging silence
As it's echo fades away ,lost ,ghostly pale
Absorbed ....
By the grey mist....
..... beyond the awaiting veil !
Keith W Fletcher Aug 2017
Just my fate
to live in a state
Where things are so...
.... backward
That the mirror view
Is a forward glance
And backward progress
Is no difference ...from a forward
Advance

It's not really part
Of the Bible belt
It's just below
The buckle
And right behind the zipper
Been here......
...most of my life
And though it has tried
From time to time
To become a smidge hipper

So far ...
It has been an absolute failure
Even though we reach ...out
To touch the tiniest shadow
Of the Color filled wonder
A state of bliss ..a state known
As Color.....COLORado.....

Though the chords are severed
And the fingers no longer
Are doing
Their earthly strumming
I will fullfill the promise...I made
Before you departed , and I stayed
To set up a life there ,and in your memory
I say my fate lies up in the Rockies
.......hold on ....I will soon be coming !
Keith W Fletcher Aug 2017
A figure draped in solitude
Sits alone
Atop the aura filled vacuum
Swollen by all it can consume

Those days
Long gone beyond
When mystic wizards
Could wave a wand
Creating spatial
Revelations
Amid the complex
Incantations

Now though ....

We're way too jaded
By the overinflated
ability
To disavow miracles
As we wait...in
..... impatient frustration
Not for the latest phone
But the file to open
for anything past 3 seconds ...

.....**** it !
Keith W Fletcher Aug 2017
Why is it ....
....you will
Talk to me with ease
When it's ...
...by the use
Of texting keys ?
But can't seem
To find the need
To say more ...
Than " s'cuse me ...thanks"
Should we meet
In a local store!
Keith W Fletcher Aug 2017
I have no outline ...
  ...no routine inclinations
No pattern I could...ever
    Draw out any delineations
From the footfalls
Clacking
In dwindling oppression
Subject of occlusions
Long ,tall or deep
Ever crowding
In effortless blocking
What memories fight to keep!!
Keith W Fletcher Aug 2017
I could do
As much as
The sands of time allows
And watch us
As we move
On down lifes road

It just looks
Like I'm wandering
In an aimless way
But I've got
A real plan
Just ain't quite that bold

But I'm trying baby

I'm trying
Hard as I can
To show you who I am
Yes I know
That I seem....like
I am so lost
And I want....to know
How...to ...trace ...my way back
To that place - that I
That I once went past

I can do ...more than
What it really takes
To get back to you

That ONE in
The rearview mirror
That I once knew
That scared the hell
Out of .....
.....the one in me
That I didn't !

Sometimes it really
Is so hard....
....... to believe
The Truth in ...
What we say

" what a tangled ..tangled
TANGLED web...
...we really do weave!
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