Psychotic Ignorance
By: Wayne Brown
Nameless faces along the crowded city streets
No time for names, no time to meet
Humanity in motion all headed somewhere
Totally focused on their own welfare
Honking horns, crying tires, screaming shouts
Seems there’s a traffic nightmare all about
Drivers are upset; cut-off and in a rage
Just kill the guy next to you; turn the page
Chaos, confusion, blank spaces in time
Poetry on walls with verses that won’t rhyme
Graffiti walls painted way up passed our knees
Is it a form of art or have we turned to sleaze?
Crime in the streets; robbing banks and liquor stores
Pimps propped up on the corner, working their whores
All happening right out in there in plain sight
No fear of seeing John Law downtown tonight
Skateboarders weaving their way between cars
Drunks stumbling into the streets out of bars
Sanity is hiding in the alley out back
Chaos reigns supreme on the Main Street track
Plotters, pilferers, robbers, killers and the like
Are all out on the prowl on this city night
Looking for any targets of opportunity
Some will go to jail but most will run free
This is what a civilized society becomes
When the streets are over-run with gutter-scum
Civility is lost; crime is the pastime of choice
The noise of the chaos drowns out a saner voice
Society has lost its trust; disorder rules the night
People huddle in their houses overcome by fright
Looting and burning; take whatever you can
Then jump through the window and run from the man
Society and order teeter on the edge of destruction
Laws are no longer a deterrence or obstruction
There are so many criminals, they steal from each other
Things are out of hand; mankind is killing his brother
Crooked politicians lining their pockets with gold
A nation immersed in debt and ready to fold
Still the lies are broadcast on the nightly news
To mollify and pacify if not to merely confuse
The glue has been pulled from the precious seams
An orderly world is just a remembrance of dreams
Faith, trust, and love are completely dispensed
The world is overrun with psychotic ignorance
©Copyright WBrown2011. All Rights Reserved.
12/01/2011
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
© 2011 Wayne Brown
