soars high in minds
Where self-gratification
Exists as the original weakness
Of human existence,
For some carnal pursuit
Gives rise to vile tendencies
That pervade all sort of society
Most commonly that where men
Do exist to manipulate flesh unwilling,
For some the inhalation of tar
Fills deep crypts
In the minds of worn fellows
Who grieve a lost past
While killing a future unknown-
For their own weakness
And those who may be forced
To sit tempered by rife smoke
And silent ignorance
That rides roughshod over all others,
But for another group
Greed gives the immediacy
Of craven men
Whose gluttony knows no bounds
Beyond the accumulation
Of material pomp
And salacious prestige
Amidst relationships salacious
And contrived too,
But what is the quintessential man-
But a loose cannon of masculine wisdom,
Fraudulent and vainly misplaced.
Anthony is a mixed-race poet & writer whose work tends to focus on social inequality throughout late-modern society. Anthony's work has been published 140 times.
Twitter/Instagram: @anthony64120 https://arsalandywriter.com/ Anthony is the Co-Eic of Fahmidan Journal.