authenticity

the burghers eating burgers
with their sides of coke and fries
complacent in the fabric
of their manufactured lives
slowly dying from the toxins
in accumulated lies

It's the tarnish and the fragments
which the struggle leaves behind
there's the measure of the yeoman
of the craftsmen of the knight
of the poet of the dreamer
all who try to set things right
in the context of their passions
and the things which they have learned.

© 2015 Frederick Andrew ~ All rights reserved

Inspired by RC deWinter's Revelation in a Faux Japanese Garden