Honourable deeds
are a thing of the past
remorse just a world
dreamt in a flash
morphine for tears
an education in pills
dichotomy of ignorance
inches its way across bills
cause for concern
invested lives don’t bloom
never to be anything
than a waist deep monsoon
and a backlash of charades
that no-one cares to guess
hard medicines a cure
or a bellicose accelerant