Ornaments Poem by Michael Walkerjohn

"If you speak from the heart, and say what you
know is the truth, you never have to worry
about what you are going to say and how
you'll say it"

Are we not such, in as much
as one sees itself hung, and
dangling down from which ever
bough that we happened to alight upon…
Have we become much more so flesh
than mind, so more so intently blind
so shallow, and callus, and too busy
to express ourselves as best in empathy
graciousness, thoughtfulness, and sympathy
that through each day and in each thought
we currently neglect the greater good of
all, for the temporary thrill and solely
self-satisfying activity that is the present
proclivity to be; only concerned with a
capitalized "ME, MYSELF, AND I" mentality?
This is today's reality, compressed and stressed
then prissed out and dressed, up to hide that
absolute malfunctioning ‘little bit' of humanity
that is remaining throughout the all of US!
An utterly disgusting mosh pit of filth and dirt
and unconsciousness of all else upon this Earth
except of course for US… the only me, myself, and I
each trusts and has any substantial discourse with
this inhuman condition; what an ochlesis; of fleshy
girth, of low ‘net' worth, each unconscious from first
breath, in no good meaning reared and coddled are
most, ill-taught, non-informed, and with a ‘learned'
give-a-shite attitude, toss aside what there is of this
‘given' life to practice with themselves what is either
that farthest "left" or their perverse "right"… (best
descriptive lines yet combining social, political, and
personal leanings exemplified by the all of US!)
Do you dare to discuss this quandary, this mess that
the each of US acquiesces to; timidly acknowledges as
the truth, blatantly voices out through speech loose
in an affinity of all togetherness and spewed out
upon the all of US proving the point of this subject
that I herein deduce, as enough to write out of
that "Book of All Life", the entire lot of you!
And no, this is not an "April's Fool" ruse, it is
the week before that purported birth, an arrival
upon Earth some millennium ago which was greeted
by so "few" in the "know" and somewhat doubted to
this very day by the masses of many; almost any of
the remaining, divided and dysfunctional members
of humanity who vainly, in their most profound
personal vanity deny any and all probability of
this particular event either occurring or that it
is simply a rather obscure ‘tick' in the history
of all humanity and worthy of only a
‘soundbite' in thought; kinda like the nut wing
orations of that entertainment journalist Hannity…
One event awash in questioning's curiosity, absurdity's
scurrying, in this Nation's murmurings and mutterings
and the minutia of all other things which the each of US
do not now possess and want; but surely we, in reality
need not what we are taught that we have to need in
this consumeristic, fascist, corporate ruled society
how "we" cling to those who provide U.S. with
these things on the cheap, of toxic foodstuffs
and questionable meats, on waters so seeped
in big pharma's and big oil's toxic releases, on
big chemical's latest detergents and poisons which
surely kill off the insects, vermin, and rodents, as well
as cause our most sensitive flesh to deform and change…
Our DNA is no longer the same, has been hijacked by
corporatists and capitalists and minimalists and each
and every Anti-Christ you and anyone else could name!
And on and on and on, as we each dangle laughingly
upon this year's dying Christmas tree hauntingly
reflecting our selfishness in the glowing light
of this burning Earth, while the fleshy bodies
of the world's innocent toast in the fire storms
caused by drone strikes and the world's response
is these warning quakes which the many of US ignore…
What more can the each of US ornaments take, what
‘norm' do the all of US seek out so that we may think
more profoundly through the decisions we each must
make; so that the awe of this can produce a difference
which will influence the instance in which all of US
wake our sleeping minds up and begin to give a phuuck
about the survival of the "species" US! And hope, that
we are not thrown out in the post-holiday trash with
that dried up and dying tree!