Drifters; humble, arrogant and sentient drifters,
We “row, row, row our boats gently down the stream”.
We step, step, step our feet in this coward’s dream.
Workers; soulless, conditioned and emotive workers.
Mortality, that coquettish wench, breathes us past GO,
The 200 we were promised is nowhere to be seen,
Card after card, mortgage after mortgage leaves us keen.
We drain our eyes of all life, and to pain we proclaim, NO!
But lo and behold! salvation awaits with a glimmer.
Empty words and imagined faces we conjure from deep,
The sweet burden of our illusions we motherly keep.
The very act makes the lights of pain dimmer and dimmer.
Love and God: the emptiest of all words we employ,
As salvation from misery becomes this arduous decoy.
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