I Know You’re Lying

Hello once again
It’s been quite a while
I see once more
That you’re full of denial
You found someone new
To alleviate your strife
Such a darn shame
It was somebody else’s wife

Yes, I know you’re both divorced
You claim there was no robbery
But you’re indifferent to their suffering
Still addicted to snobbery
Unveiling yourselves
Flaunting it all for clicks
Swearing it’s for real
Giving up dicks

I guess you’re Anne Heche now
Because nothing else is working
They’re all giving you hell
And I find myself smirking
You can finally breathe
While Gaza lies bleeding
I shouldn’t be surprised
You’ve always been misleading

Pretending to be noble
Acting like you care
Then whining when exposed
Crying it’s so unfair
You’re just a wealthy Karen
Get used to the heat
You have no integrity
And you’re easy to beat

Your lack of remorse
For wasting all his time
Keeping up appearances
Covering up your crime
Acting like the victim
While out on the lam
Choosing to be married
When you knew it was all a sham

He took the high road
He deserves better than you
He could’ve been resentful
That would’ve been my view
He was happy to be hitched
To an unrepentant fake
He didn’t really know
He made a terrible mistake

But you found love
And isn’t that grand?
Keep mingling with evil
And the hopelessly bland
Keep ignoring the cries
And the screams of the dying
You can maintain this angelic pose
But I know you’re lying

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Saturday, May 4, 2024
6:11 p.m.

Forever Disgraced

Fulfilling a promise
Ironclad support
Concealing the evidence
From the eyes of the court
Increasing scrutiny
Accelerating rage
A wave of denial
Defining his age

Losing control
Lost in false belief
Funding the cause
Of all of their grief
Sealed in a bubble
Dismissing mass dissent
Sinking and drowning
Too tragic to invent

Born with no soul
Deprived of a heart
Revealing his malevolence
Right from the start
A legacy of delusion
Insisting he’s succeeded
Crashing into resistance
Permanently impeded

A determined stubbornness
A history of lies
A crumbling image
Perpetually unwise
An affinity for myth
A loyalty misplaced
The coming disappointment
Forever disgraced

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Monday, April 29, 2024
9:27 p.m.

How Does It Feel?

How does it feel to be defeated?
How does it feel to be deleted?
How does it feel to be unseated?
How will it feel to be depleted?

How does it feel to be debased?
How does it feel to be disgraced?
How does it feel to be a waste?
How will it feel to be replaced?

How does it feel to be rejected?
How does it feel to be suspected?
How does it feel to be inspected?
How will it feel to be dissected?

How does it feel to be deplored?
How does it feel to be abhorred?
How does it feel to fall on your sword?
How will it feel to be unadored?

How does it feel to be diseased?
How does it feel to be displeased?
How does it feel to be unappeased?
How will it feel to have your assets seized?

How does it feel to be opposed?
How does it feel to be disposed?
How does it feel to be exposed?
How will it feel to be deposed?

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Saturday, January 27, 2024
12:49 p.m.

Two-Second Solution

It can end in an instant
The threat of expulsion
One direct edict
Halted compulsion

Cut off at the knees
Unable to continue
Begging for more murder
But can’t order off the menu

A sudden rejection
A depleted supply
Despised and alone
No more master to defy

Failing to conquer
Incinerated reputation
A campaign in ruins
Widespread devastation

Rapidly losing
Control of the story
Heart-wrenching images
Intensely gory

Bombing away
A future of peace
Endless occupation
The violence will increase

Remove the veto
And watch the dominoes fall
A two-second solution
With a single call

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Monday, January 1, 2024
4:38 p.m.

Drowning In Blood

Incoming deluge
Organized penetration
Charging ahead
Dismantling illusions
Dissolving into sand
Smothered in hate
Drowning in blood

Collective witness
Spreading the worry
Exposing vulnerability
Shattering expectations
The responding suppression
Strengthening the rebellion
Growing into millions

Ruled by panic
Heartless extension
The agony spreading
Guaranteed self-destruction
Burning the fabric
Suffocating smoke
Reducing the sympathy

Lying with impunity
Torturing the innocent
Stained by history
There is no escape
Fast-tracking extinction
Self-inflicted demise
Death by hubris

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Monday, January 1, 2024
12:14 a.m.

Repeatedly Burned

The ghost has disappeared
Haunting some other place
Arguing with the universe
Trying to save face
Losing another war
Denying basic facts
Hopelessly committed
To these embarrassing acts

Impulsive by nature
Determined to be first
No pause for reflection
Tragically cursed
As long as the wind
No edit in sight
A horror to behold
Not terribly bright

Just can’t resist
Plunging the knife
It’s just too easy
The new Barney Fife
Cold and indifferent
Silly and obtuse
The ultimate scammer
A transparent ruse

Running afoul
Of society at large
Refusing to retreat
Always on the charge
A valuable lesson
Yet to be learned
The fool on the hill
Repeatedly burned

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Monday, December 25, 2023
2:14 p.m.

All It Takes

All it takes
Is just one click
The violence stops
No one gets sick
The madness ends
The healing starts
The fear subsides
The anger departs

All it takes
Is just one tap
The pain erased
A concluded scrap
Departing shadows
A rising sun
An emerging peace
A return to fun

All it takes
Is a single lift
Standards restored
Hatred adrift
The parting of ways
No more suspense
The impasse resolved
No longer intense

All it takes
To shut it all down
Is to let it all go
Without making a sound
Shifting attention
Diverting resources
Abandoning failure
Plotting new courses

All it takes
Is a simple retreat
Accepting reality
Admitting defeat
Picking up the pieces
And throwing them away
Head for higher ground
Starting today

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
6:53 p.m.

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.

Exchange Of Fire

Feel the loathing
Brace for attack
Load up on armour
Front to back

This added protection
Sealed in tight
Still room to maneuver
Ready to fight

Eyes always rotating
Fitfully aware
Fear of anticipation
Always worse than the scare

Sweating profusely
The heat always rising
The unsteady nerves
The glare disguising

The quiet unsettling
The endless waiting
Impatience contagious
Strategists debating

Then finding a moment
Focus unblinking
Locked on target
Without even thinking

And so it begins
This exchange of fire
The piercing of wounds
A metallic choir

Ripping through boundaries
Slicing through fraud
Annihilating calvaries
Exposing the flawed

A cluttered wasteland
Bathed in red
No space untainted
Devastation spread

No purpose served
No objective achieved
A weak rationale
We were all deceived

Dennis Earl
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Sunday, July 30, 2023
10:53 p.m.