A snide smile warps empathy’s humaneness
A blank cheque soils innocence to subservience
A sharp blade offers escape to a despairing pulse
And
A mother with child
guides a partner’s calloused palm
to experience aliveness
in vitality’s kicking magnificence
And
A blank page of fate begins anew, with
Hope enough to scribble yet another’s
Life of ephemeral gaiety, Promising
Ingredients aplenty, to ink yet more
Tear stained, Poetry
© L. B. Mek
September 2022