Reckless Abandonment Poem by Jevon Wray

What does man know of honor
Respect, authority and power.
I have witnessed the shame in senseless pride
Disrepect and disregard in the men who cower.

In unrequited humility I testified,
That men, nay brothers in arms would abide
By word and truth, virtuously standing side by side
That brothers would decide
To lead one another, each other a friend, a guide
But They lied.
In reckless abandonment the weak allied,
With their self destruction, they alone relied
On their inflated egos to lift them on high,
To send them crashing to the abyss
How they wish they had died.

Curious though, how I refuse to miss
The forsaken pact, once held honorable promise
The ones who faced brother with clenched fist
Whom their own demons they couldn't resist
We prayed for them with humble wish
And in their failure to persist
With what was true, they concurred self righteous,
In reckless abandoment,
Ashes rose and faded in the mist.

There will always be smoke
In the face of a firebreather, all matter must revoke
Cosmic joke.
A brief intermission, I laughed as I wrote.

In reckless abandonment,
We understand that Man is temperament
Reluctant to reach agreement
They forsake good will for rash judgement.
Delusions poison their minds, so repugnant
Conspiring betwixt their backs, so indignant
How it tore them down so maliciously, we shall lament
And so.

This is my punishment.
I renounce them of all detriment
And as they leave my shadow let them see iridescent
It is not my wish to see their fate malignant
So We solemnly swear in reckless abandonment.