Expel Straitjackets - Rubaiyat Acrostic Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

Time's breakneck pace hangs helter-skelter. 'Rush!
I must survive I'kills others in cussed crush,
Merge, surge then splurge, urge on, and then strike-out,
Ephemeral applause drowned.Deafening hush.

Think! outside in is spelled E.M.I.T.
Inside out finds T.I.M.E. fit
Must to the day the evil thereof be ~
En_graved to T however played wan wit.

To Time what signifies inside or out?
If Time's dimension both can do without ~
Man's signpost vane spins vain, north, south, east west,
Express crow heeds nor stop sign, roundabout.

Thus pride precedes greed's fall, Fate far and wide
Indicts Man's might, plight sets gleams' dreams aside.
Most confidence masks weakness, sorry schemes
Ensue, Time tables turns, spurns deals inside.

Tempus fugit! breath, death share one rhyme,
Implying pure and dissolute in crime
Musty must mingle, moths consumed by fire,
Evicted from life's phantom pantomime.

Thread's warp weft shifts as time from pattern stock
Into, through, metamorphosis may lock,
Mutate, rise, fall, find catalyst as key,
Expel straitjackets which clear thinking block.

"The die is cast" some say: historic lock
Impose on free-will. Status quo half-cock
Movement compromises, heart's hopes pawns,
Endangered equilibrium's in hock.

The answer may not individuality
Identify, but way we Destiny
Must navigate unique path as life's clock
Extends birth's tics,berth's tocks, first shock, last dock.

Transmitted genes choice, voice, can't guarantee.
In fee to Darwin contradictory
Mankind must leapfrog evolution's chock.
Espouse strong options, opportunity,

To omega from alpha Time's hymn hum
Incorporates strange range, reins all that come,
Man's first, last cry, lie dumb, die, destiny recast,
Endlessly seeks equilibrium.

Tomorrow tells who'd dwell on past success
It in itself knells tocsin fell few bless,
Makes fun of humdrum and 'unique', Time's bill
Empties glass, aside casts second guess.

Trust Carpe Diem! rust soon supersedes
Iron bright, steel will soon tarnished, weeds
Muzzle dynastic seeds, reigns' skeins unwind,
Exit pursued by Lethe! game concedes.