How is it that
We came to be
Living within
A calamity
Of epic proportion
A delusion grand
It’s really a struggle
To understand
Quite how it is
Here we’ve arrived
Stuck in a plot
That’s so contrived
With no escape
Or end in sight
As it all crumbles
To just sit tight
And let the ones
Who led us here
Continue to reign
With lies and fear
Is that really the new normal?
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
It’s turning into
A tale of woe
Where once was trust
Now feels like foe
What they’re doing
Not trying to hide
For one to conquer
You must divide
It really is
A heinous crime
To take your life
And steal your time
Changing thoughts
And stirring hate
Just so they can
Manipulate
Us all
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
How can a year
Feel so long
The strangest one
That’s gone so wrong
Whatever plans
We thought we had
It started good
Then went to bad
So much delayed
And put on hold
Dreams and lives
Are now controlled
It’s hard to swallow
And really accept
The ones who lead us
Are blindly inept
And at their whim
Ourselves we find
While in this play
We’re all entwined
To whatever end
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
I used to think
I was just perturbed
But now it’s gone
To full disturbed
Each little thing
Down to my core
Is telling me
There’s something more
Feeling like
A pawn in a plan
No longer sure
When this all began
By searching hard
I can but try
To separate
The truth from lie
(c K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
I look around
At all this mess
A thickening plot
Of unfolding stress
Just how much
Can people take
Being pushed
So that they brake
What they took
Has gone so fast
Our future dream
A thing of the past
I guess for some
It’s hard to believe
So, in a way
We need to grieve
For what we’ve lost
And what won’t be
Replaced by a disturbing
New reality
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
This is something
I cannot stress
Enough to you
And must impress
The seriousness
Of where we are
It’s happening
Gone way too far
But now it’s in motion
The wheels are set
What they want
Is a growing threat
In people’s minds
And what they say
Fear and compliance
It seems their way
Which brings a sadness
And is such a shame
But you must understand
This isn’t a game
This is your life
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
Never before
Did I see
That all of us
Collectively
Have been held down
Our lives disrupted
By the powers that be
Who are corrupted
It’s not for our safety
Or our health
But just to add
A little more wealth
To their growing
Money pot
Stripping the rest
They want the lot
By taking down
The average folk
I guess to them
We’re just a joke
For wanting a life
And security
To them we’re just
Opportunity
To offer us more debt…
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
I haven’t had much feedback for this one yet, other than it was compelling, they were hooked from the first page and the story unfolded at breakneck speed. I take that as encouraging. This was an odd story to write because unlike my first book where I knew the whole story and just had to put pen to paper, this one unfolded before me. I suspect that is why it comes across as happening at breakneck speed because that it is how it is meant to be.
I don’t actually know how to slow it down to be honest. And when I have re-read it through, I get so engrossed in the story, the excitement and the fear of where it’s going, that I am completely distracted by it. Good if I want to escape with my own book, but not so good perhaps for the reader? Chapter one is available below if anyone wants to take the plunge…
I also have colourful bags available for sale as well as copies of my books if anyone wants to buy them directly. Or bags available at Rebubble and books at Amazon.
(c) K Wicks
I’m not sure what
We can achieve
If there’s no way
To ever believe
What’s being said
And being done
It’s been a debacle
Now it’s begun
Breaking down
What once there was
To create a new
Just because
This is what
The powers that be
Have now set forth
As reality
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
The normal fears
That we have faced
Have been rewritten
And replaced
That there are those
Elected through charm
Who actually mean
To cause us harm
If it was nature
Throwing the curve
We’d find our feet
And then observe
How we can group
And organize
But not when trapped
In all these lies
The mental threat
Looms ever near
While slowly taking
What we hold dear
Through all of this
I can but hope
We make it through
And manage to cope
It’s a strange road ahead…
Rhyme and Reason
(c) K Wicks
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