Exalt

Tame the cradle
Gravy ladle
Cain and Abel
Fractured fable

Whine and cackle
Hind and hackles
Leave your faculties
resolved.

If quiet rumor’s hush
Brings pale cheeks to blush
From troubled fountains' gush.
Fallow then creeps to lush.

Drop a penny at the source.
Troubles many without recourse,
But in gesture hope springs forth.
What once was South may now be North.

Warmth and wonder, solid view.
Dreaming now of You know Who.
Careful not to misconstrue
A stagnant feeling once it grew.

Sycophantic lovers leap.
What they had, they couldn’t keep.
Now they’re lying in a heap
On predecessor’s pile they sleep.

I’ll take what's mine instead,
A quiet heart and single bed.
No abandonment to dread.
Once was hungry, now is fed.


4/27/21