Man at Loss
Tearful and hopeless, I wonder and flop
Dreadful and hapless, my laughter I lop
The starry night invites me to peace
Querying me about a lease
Where I’m to consider absurdity
Over normality
And rent a lifetime of vanity
At the cost of eternity
Only I would do such a thing
Selling my morals, letting my soul fling
Into the depths of the abyss
I find it hard to desist
That which narcissism promises piety may insist
But a fool never fails to resist
An offer made in private, and absolutely confidential,
That allots me power with eminent potential
My confidence boosted, only more, no less
Remnants of care are cleansed frivolous
There is a God,
And His name is me
I reign as the king of my realm
Wild and free
Ruling everything between the sky and sea
But there is a stark reality
Behind my congenial fallacy
I’ve been given a lofty, but fleeting mortality
When I should have chosen morality for my sanity
So, I lost at the end of it all
We all rise up at one point only to fall
Winning in sin is still a losing fate
Because when you’re down in the ground it’s too late
(2012)
This is a poem I wrote and posted on my poetry blog Poetics by Mera
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