The rules we obeyed..

There are some people during this pandemic that seem to plough their own furrow, sadly they are the ones who make up the rules.

The rules we obeyed:

Tell your children

about our lives,

living and not living

day after day after day.

The death chart rising,

and my guilt increasing

resisting the call to volunteer.

Looking back

obeying,

until the bald one

with his viper tongue

sat at his decorating table.

Denying and defying

his own rules.

Bending them in the hot sunlight

of the Rose Garden.

The stench of deceit,

a miasma in that scented place.

250 miles of essential journey

he was blinded to the common man.

And then the thatched, stained one

defending his innocence

polishing up the looking glass while

doubling down on lies.

We all looked on,

at this breathtaking show,

transfixed, fascinated in the terribleness

of this treason.

So where did that leave us?

As fools and incompetent parents?

Unable to read the rules,

lacking compassion and common sense.

I don’t really think so, we know

so well these traitors

who will sell their souls to pursue the

despicable game of power.