Don't Insist On Meaning

East winds blow, the love of many grows cold

Cautious parents bind up children for the night

Blame’s refrain: “In with the new, out with the old”

Pretends not to see the decaying city’s blight

Beauty queen struts acquitted streets with a gun

Don’t insist on meaning where there is none

Genghis hordes bathe hometowns in violence

A 100-year flood of blood soaks decrepit streets

Mice flee the conquering cat in squeaking silence

Avoiding the fall of the green giant’s false feet

Blushing bride wears a suicide vest in the sun

Don’t insist on meaning where there is none

Blind luminaries see only what they want to see

Deaf counselors hear only what’s in their head

Every word means just what they want it to be

Coronation groupies laud when all are misled

Trumpets call wrong right, think it's lots of fun

Don’t insist on meaning where there is none

October 2016