for what purpose,

if i may ask,

suggestions of compassion?

 

would it not be more genuine,

to pass the superficial statements of solidarity through a filter of truth?

remove the assumed perception of empathy –

from the diatribes they conceal?

 

i for one would much rather face a wolf –

understand the opposition –

than mingle with imagined sheep and become victim to defamation by deceit…

 

confused?

how so?

surely you realize,

even the perfection of your make-up can’t hide the truth

when standing alone –

outside –

(animal) in the rain.

on the road from re-probation to redemption

concern,

or obligation?

compassion,

or prayer for judgment?

i hear you speak words of sympathy in regards to incarceration of addiction.

and yet i fail to feel conviction in your offering of feigned commiseration.

 

i suppose,

to understand the is of someone’s habit,

one must have lived the was of their own.

 

presumptuous,

don’t you think,

alms offered for atonement of sins supposed?

on what platform of implied accommodation do you feel justified offering allegiance?

prayers i hear –

utterance of intercession.

yet there you stand –

un-kneeled –

eyes un-closed,

hands un-folded.

and from the words you speak –

no consolation,

no reprieve.

 

to enter heaven crawling –

pleading mercy –

unclothed of all but humility;

more appropriate ending to my life –

than concealed in robes of presume,

carried ceremoniously unaffected

down the corridors of hell…