my partisans

it is not your imaginations

these are the worst of days

when souls from various other times

have brought their miserable spiritual baggage

to this earthly plane to 'work out their destinies' (ugh!)

during this terrible time of historical transition

how else explain the surplus of ravening lunatics

who've learned nothing from one life to the next

come now to make hell on this earth?

no need to preach

we all see the shit around us

and any poet or politician who claims to lead

is a deluded liar at best

in our frail human impotence

to deal with this apocalyptic moment in time

we can only suffer and endure

because how it all turns out is beyond our scope

even if it is all built on our mere mortal choices

but some clairvoyant (I don't remember who)

claimed to see as far into the future as the 22nd century

and this mystic declared there'd be great abandoned ruins

(the remnants of all that is now forming)

and very very few people present at that time

horrible as that may seem to some

I hope by grace of the One and the play of karma

I come back into the world at that time

I may as always be mistaken

but that world seems like one in which I can function

and any failures I/we endure may be one step closer

to the release from earthly suffering we seek...

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