This is about the failure of education, the loss of compassion, and the death of integrity.
Original digital surreal art: “Futility Of Caring” by: rob kistner © 10/3/23
Our hunger for green knowledge
starved bone brittle by hollow echoes
slap sided on dead end chalk boards
askew in silent black-roofed facades
screams into a cold shadowed void
as once it was the colour of saying
now the great roaring unclean
surge and swindle
dumbly blank
whispering in tangled tongues
of forfeit’s hard foolishness
as the liars rise up to backslide
over taunted poison waterfalls
on revved up motors of ridicule
burning the fuel of unrefined truth
now the gentle seaslides of saying
I must undo
with fist and swift
seeing one-eyed blind
through the exasperation
of sullen box-bound broke light
to the heart meat of slain freedom
families bury safety and sanity
in fields of concrete and clay
as dangerous lovers
in the dirt of their leafy beds
hide and huddle
concealing the sly reasons
for held secrets
and unsung songs
spinning wild fiction
in whirlpools of deafening chaos
and dead flowers
now my saying shall be my undoing
knowing the bloodied futility
of the toxic dull-ached search
because veracity is soul-orphaned
pronounced grey-bluingly dead…
…no longer green
Original digital surreal art: “Death of Truth”
by: rob kistner © 10/3/23
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rob kistner © 10/3/23
Poetry at: dVerse