The Vacant Party
The Vacant
Party
What is this subservience to death?
How can someone ignore children,
Cut down by a maniac?
What motive drives the lack of horror?
Money.
Blood money.
Riches strangle compassion.
The abandonment of empathy
Is to give up humanity,
And become a thing,
Ravenous,
Empty,
Impossible to satisfy.
All the gold in the world
Will not fill the hollow,
Where the heart used to be.
The only emotions left are bitter,
Craven,
Grasping,
And envious of everything not possessed,
Including the discarded grace
No longer understood,
And too warm to hold again.
Is it tragic?
Yes.
Is it repulsive?
Also, yes.
Can it be cured?
I just don’t know.
Cliff Lake 3/30/2023
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