Yet therein still
Moments
Still haunting me
Omens
At home in
So close to you
Long have I known this
Was really the place
In deep space
We embrace
Imitating
The imminent
Dissonant
State
In which solely
My Roman
Ancestry
Unconquered
Expanding its reach
Until city streets
Wander

Once more
The public defenders
Surrender
To enemy states
Their impatience
Engenders
But we’ve seen it all
Watched the fall
Of the shopping mall
Deepseeking
Concert hall
Burning in splendor
As Nero aways
Drifts apart from the people
And watches the blaze
But if razing the standard
Is upending order
Then what say the man
Who comes up a bit shorter
What border wall
Criminal past
Must he hide
What abortions of justice
So blatantly lied
When its
All checks
Imbalanced
The obvious tyrant
Dictum
And demeanor
Messianic palace
Makes you a believer
But pillars
Pill bottles
And bills
Still **** children
And thrill seeking pigs
Will keep bombing
The building
Net worth still ballooning
And dooming the planet
But now it’s too late
Like I said
Time to panic

Thought I could make
The world
Spin in reverse
Fly as high
As the sky
Becomes void
To immerse
Me in worsening
Crises
And foreign disputes
For the fringes
My dearest
Were cold
Without boots
On the ground
To be forging
The valleys
Of Kandahar
Into the hills
And the heights
Of Abdul-Jabbar
From what afar
Appeared
More like
The Magic
Intentions again
But the hell is paved
Tragic
And grab it and go
Economics
Can’t prosper
If rattling sabers
Continue to posture
Illegally  
Neutralizing
Perceived threat
With a war to forget,
A tank full of regret,
And a silhouette
Setting sun
Empire’s debt

Most young women
In no Russian
To get pregnant
Just keep crushing
These days
Far more issues
Trusting
Hushing
More potential suitors
Disempowered
Once
Recruiters
Now controlling
Testing waters
Fishing betas
Someone’s daughter’s
Only man’s
Her biggest fan
Her wish
His dissonant
Command

The Persian incursion
The Chinese disease
The Russian Invasion
American dreams
But it’s greed
Begets all
Of the conflict
We crave
Underscores
All the wars
We so minimum
Wage
Even what we complain
About
Just a contrivance
The unspoken
Token
Vote
Chokehold
Of tyrants
So long as the piracy,
Plunder
And spoils
Persist
Unabated
Enriching the royals
Then trust we shall vanquish
The bogeyman villainy
Scapegoating pillory
Only when at their
Expense
The artillery

Now the collapse
Of malicious intent
Evident
Since
Investment
In overpriced rent
For the tenement
Slumlord
Evicting
Dismissing
The neediest
Dreamer ingredient
Tents
Much prefers  
The exclusive
Live interview
Strips
Real estate
In conversion
To e-stated
Whips

Trapped in this
Continuum
The time it takes
To come undone
To disassemble
Incremental
Steps
To make it all connect
Trajectory
Made linear
More easily
To redirect
The wayward
Stream of conscious
Wanders
From
What it
So blithely squanders