Wrecking Ball

Wrecking Ball

Disguised by an outcropping of history,

laws rewritten to suit utopian fantasies

have left society adrift, without moorings,

shadowless in sunshine.

Decimated by a wrecking ball of greed

crashing through decades of attempted decency,

unhindered by common sense cables and pulleys,

unfazed by morality’s chains and winches.

Scepter of extinction hovering menacingly

proves no deterrent to the madness,

while careless dismissal of the inevitable

leaves victims of drinking though not of thirst.

Erected by the prodigal politics so prevalent,

timed by progress’s erratic metronome,

hidden springs of fate unwinding answers

in an answerless world.