They Don’t Care

Self-important to the extreme
Opposing the left a recurring theme
Not welcome on the progressive team
Opinions so evil you want to scream

Blathering on for paragraphs at a time
Equating peaceful protest with a hideous crime
A dead philosophy running out of time
Future comeuppance would be sublime

The sun doesn’t shine, it always rains
Slumps through life with shit for brains
Fails to recognize societal pains
Attacks the Abels, sides with the Cains

Perfectly fine with the weakening status quo
Talented enough to both suck and blow
Yearns again to be the star of the show
But that was a long, long time ago

Pretends to care by saying the right things
Then plunges the knife so deep it stings
Delivering misery wearing angel wings
Vomits on the poor while protecting the kings

Never running out of ways to fuck us all
Knees buckling, not standing tall
Reaching for excuses while fumbling the ball
Inflating the rhetoric but failing to enthrall

The world is on fire and they don’t care
It’s part of their plan to whiten our hair
To shrink our futures with a constant scare
A system of greed that’s always been there

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Sunday, August 20, 2023
8:06 p.m.

Bitter Reflections

So much wasted energy
So much wasted time
The war is over
Walk away from the slime

Let it fade into nothing
Leave it far behind
Phase out these feelings
Flush out your mind

Rebuild and reclaim
Resume a state of peace
Stock up on joy
Let your happiness increase

See through the fog
And bitter reflections
No more fevered thoughts
No more infections

Bring back the pleasure
Abandon the rage
Retrieve the missing key
And unlock the cage

Let go of the panic
Shed all this hate
Don’t miss the dread
The pain it would generate

Lessons in humility
Painfully learned
Class dismissed
Court is adjourned

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Thursday, August 3, 2023
2:52 p.m.