Songs of Dust, Lust and Trust

1.

each generation inherits the dust
of stagnant remnants from the past
unhinged ideals unfinished wars
gold-dust and bloodstains on checkered floors

2.

let us propose a toast to virtue
and to all the qualities that civilize us
we drink our fill of religious democracy, philosophy and economics
subject ourselves to the vagaries of the humanities
after the cocktails and mental debaucheries
we can succumb to confessions, absolution's
and more excess
and if we are so blest with degrees of success
we may crown our efforts with some more mind-sex
until we are all spent on trust as latex

3.

we are citizens of the wilderness
denizens of a star crossed planet
loved by one sun and one resplendent moon
given to the graces and gravity of jealous gods
our dreams are but shadows in the mists of times dawning
whilst some of us do awake to see the morning
to many more this life is a fateful dance in the dark

4.

Yet
each generation writes its own story
tells its own white-lies to mask the bitter black truth
to sweeten this tragic and strange fruit of a life
existing between impermanence and nothingness
seeding the stars
yet generating the dust