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SPECIEíS INEXCUSABLE SURRENDER
BY JAMES A. GALGANO
HIDING IN THE WINGS OF SOMEONE ELSES FEATHERS
FLEEING TO THE INNER OUTSKIRTS OF ANOTHERS MIND
REACHING FOR A HAND TO WARILY PULL US FROM YESTERYEARS
WHIRLPOOL
AND OUT OF THE DARK ABYSS OF OUR OWN UNDENIABLE DESPERATE
Reflections GUFFAW
AS WE SLOWLY SINK INTO THE QUIVERING SHADOWS OF ANOTHER
BROKEN Promises DECLINE
WADING THROUGH EACH Morrows MAZE OF DECEIT
WATCHING IT WEAR AWAY THE INNOCENSE AND HOPE
OF ENDLESS GENERATIONS WHO INVOLUNTARILY FOLLOW
IN THE FADED FOOTPRINTS OF Someone's WANDERING DREAMS
WHILE AIMLESSLY WE STILL STRUGGLE TO FREE OURSELVES
FROM THE CHAINS WHICH BIND US ALL IN SULLEN SILENCE
WALTZING WITH THE DEMONS OF OUR INDESCRIBABLE FALLIBILITY
WELL INTO THE EVENING OF OUR LIFEíS SLOW DANCE WITH
INEVITABLE DECAY
WHILE RESISTING THE MOUNTING URGE TO SURRENDER
TO THE VOID WHICH WILL INEVITABLY CONSUME
OUR EXISTENCE AND MEMORIES WHOLE WITHOUT EVEN DEFENSIBLE
STRUGGLE
WALLOWING IN EACH Moonbeams POINTED CRITIQUE
SILENTLY STARING BEHIND OUR INABILITY TO SPEAK OUT
IN OUR OWN PRECARIOUS DEFENSE FOR RIGHTS TOO EASILY
SURRENDERED FOR SUCH INEXCUSABLE REASONS DEFINED
WHERE IS THE SOLACE TO COMFORT THOSE WHO FOLLOW IN THESE
COWARDLY LEMMING FOOTPRINTS INTO THE DARKNESS OF NEVERMORE
WILL THIS UNSCRUPULOUS SURRENDER DEFINE OUR SPECIES
AND BE PARODIED IN THE PARABLES OF THOSE WHO FOLLOW
AS THE PRIDE UNFULLFILLED YET SO EASILY IS SWALLOWED BY
MERE GOOD INTENTIONS?