Down the Rabbit Hole

Tossing around some favorite lines, feeding the rant that swells at the evening news...

Down the Rabbit Hole

Down and down, we go..
Hell fires brimming molten forgetfulness
“Who dares enter here?”
Forbidden Grounds, where fear dominates
Hell’s Gates...
Knock three times and toss Cerberus a bone
of contention.

An old story..
Purgatory.

Mind numb we wander
through car lots looking for escape,
shopping malls to clothe our naked shame,
food courts to stuff our hunger,
surfing channels of cyber realms to ease eternal loneliness..

unto death
do we cycle again and again
searching for heaven
and the virgins promised....
by the fat caterpillar
who has never sprouted his own wings anyway.

Each solar return spurns new anger
promises...
lies and deception
the pills we swallow to change our perception
pharmaceutic mesmerization.
Docile and meek,
we’ve waited forever,
to inherit the earth.

An irrevocable act
the final temptation
of revenge.

Goddess was burned on the cross
spurned and humiliated
we hated what she showed us
of our own weakness.

Mad hatters play perceptions with marketable skill
stocks rise and fall as the Red Queen remarks to her aside,
“let the cards fall where they may”...

“Show me your hand, and I will tell your fortune...

Ghost face smiles cat-like from the future..
promising nine more lives...
maybe.”

There is no escape from here,
down and down we go,
unwinding star-dust DNA
all the way back
to Eden.

Reviews

[ravincause]

Well, I was hoping the unwinding DNA back to Eden was a hopeful ending... I think, we may be doing that...

[Desert Dreamer]

There is no escape from this society, no where left to run...I hope it is not as hopeless as all that. Love this poem!