pipedreams

the vicissitudes of vexational politics

the congress of the weary soul at night
in fitful slumber pipedreams would incite,
were parliamentary apostrophes
judiciously aligned with fantasies.

politic sleep leaves pillow boundaries
to guard the head from animosities
that penetrate the secrets of the mind,
leaving intact, by ignorance confined,

blind leadership voted by ballot breach.
the loudest snorers are the first to preach
of constitutional sharp-sightedness
yet, how acute their feeble-mindedness,

when bench reform, in his procrustean bed,
lies comatose, interred live with the dead!
then, when dark voices slaughter women’s rights,
and husbandmen enlarge conjugal fights,

the children's bill of rights, thrust to the floor,
gets kicked outside the house of lords once more.
the nightmares of earth's darkest parliaments
wither at dawn, when nobler men's intents

bring swift reform to laziness and vice.
just rule countenances no cowardice
for, where vexed vision violates the view,
slumbers all fertile hope for me and you.

© Copyright 2023 November 11
By Clyve A. Bowen♫