Precipice

crazy and wild
with thoughts gone child
and caricatures of infancy,
the world spins though diplomacy
with madness and desire.

as the old retire
and the young aspire
i walk the precipice of uncertainty.
each step a dream,
each dream a mirror,
each mirror a mind
as we all look within
and try to find
the one we call self.

bliss and pageantry fall to savagery
as guns and viral treachery
careen through nations locked in war.
watch the headlines to see the horror
from the safety of an entertainment center-
a center of distance and seclusion,
of ignorance and delusion;
this is necessary -
the apocalypse of greed
is precursory to seed
a global emergence of civilization
back unto one.