Values of poverty,
Piety
Heaven-sent
Somehow becoming
Traditions
More decadent
What other uses
For ages of plunder
Abuses of power's
Insatiable hunger
Foregoing,
Forgetting,
Forgiving excesses
With presents
Presented as
What he professes
But was it so prescient
Foreseeing
His birth
Rematerializing
Its tangible worth
In a splendorous
Spending-spree
Dollar tree
Industry
Gifting,
Regifting,
Now shipping
Religiously

Not intent
But intonation
Saw what my people
Had built for me
Waiting
Safeguarding
Regarding
Me
Of the mandating
It can’t be forever
Prosperity yields
It will not be eternal
How awful it feels
For there will come a time
We must choose
Who we are
And through proof
Or in truth
See the solely sworn servitude
Back to the youth

Try talking of climate
They’d sooner
Deny it
Try talking of politics
Seek to divide it
Try sharing your feelings
Divulging your secrets
They’d make them taboo
While exploiting your weakness
Try lead by example
Just see where it gets you
Try seizing the moment
As futures forget to
Contain you
Sustain you
Preserve your remembrance
So why try to make the world
In your resemblance?

Reliving
The campus life
Now and adult
Not a student
Maturing
From youth in revolt
Thought I knew it
Community
Primed and prepared
Was imbued with
Immunity
To feeling scared
Could adapt
Integrate
And cohabitate
Seamless
Aspired
To overcome
Mountains of needless
And heedless of warnings
To opt for realistic
I shot for the stars
Like a missile
Ballistic
But missed it
The mark
Overshot
The world peace
And crash landed instead
On an uncharted beach

Until suns rising over
Eternity
Beckon
Inclined will I be
To advise
Its progression
To oversee yield
Without chain gangs afield
Without hangman’s
Majority
Whiplash to wield
And devoid of its
Noblest hypocrisy
Gaining
At others’ expense
Do their coffers containing
Your brains
Keep expunging and plunging
Them
Clogging your drains
From domain names
Of new world
Disorder
In veins
As it even now profits
More off
Your remains

Something flash past
Clad in black
In the night
Did you happen
To see it
Or vividly write
It more clearly
More practicably
As a specter
A silhouette hummingbird
Seeking its nectar
Like feathers
Can catch
And adrift
In the breeze
Like society hides
What the rest of it sees

Seed of innovation
Discontentment with my station
With my place
My lot in life
Dissatisfied
A wrong to right
Or opportunity comes knocking
Flickering
Gives way to light