Views in Verse on 'monsters in the dark'

Sleepwalking

Moving along these passages
When do I awake
From these dreams?
Best advice is
Whispered soft
"Avoid the dark extremes"

Seasons startled, on the wing
Little change…
You wonder why?
Social comment…
Speaks loud disdain
Yet covers the drier eye

Ambition coupled
To a negotiable god
Brings rapacity of demand
Yet who can declare:
"Enough already!"
In resisting ‘the greedy hand’?

The working poor
Eke out their pleasures
(not enough said of their pain)
The single minded
Too mean of thought
To opine this sad refrain

The ‘six thirty’ pulse
Barks out loud
Much to little or no avail
Insipid witness
To wretched hurt
Can only trigger the pale

But with grass so green
Isolation breeds
Alone in garden sheds
Beyond the roses
Kept secrets dwell
Battered wives in thorny beds

The Church carries on
In lip-sync
Their veil on cruel abuse
Duplicitous dumb-down
Banal bent newsfeed
So casually obtuse

Children behind bars
Politically correct
Awaiting intervention
As murder is weighed
Against arms-trade action
A chicken and egg intention

Whilst whimsical playthings
deny us a view
Of whatever could allay…
Powerful leaders
Ready to war
We, inept, await the day

Reason is duly dulled by slumber
Monsters prowl about in the dark
Resiled from truth
It comes at a price
The demons stamp their mark

Am I duped…?
Or am I sleeping?
Can we rise together again?
Smarten up…
Shout ‘reveille’!
Lest carry-on in vain

Grahame J Flynn Views in Verse