'dark nights of the soul' have become tiresome--

no one listens to this drivel any longer

when everyone is equally at the mercy

of common daily travails--

so the schoolyard failure--the one who couldn't

make it in gym or at the proms

sees visions on the bedroom ceiling

and twists in hormonal rage

while the world outside considers him

for nothing but ridicule--

what vanity did he think would be excused?

what self-regard parading as sacrifice and suffering

on the behalf of us all?

the dark humid Age of Pisces is over--

the clean clear detachment of the Aquarian Age spreads

and even here some mischief of intractable human nature--

some tyranny of righteousness needs be addressed

before anybody is in any position to go forward--

so let the sensitive ones whose contrition is just another

form of selfishness and their active sunlit counterparts

comfortable with objects and delusions of control

alike mount step on step to some misapprehended glory--

alike they will pay in their objective worth--regardless

of what and how much they think they are about--

'dark nights of the soul' drive away people in droves

when the midnight inherent in every noonday sun

manifests in every sharp edged shadow

people take refuge in...

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