rancorous regret

take your bitter seed and plant it in your bosom

you radiate remorse

yet no one seems to take the time to stop and see if they can help

as you waste away

the cancer of loss multiplying in your worried mind

fading from sight

as if a cataract has fallen over the moon and the tides have lost their way

the eastern seaboard has gone away

eroded back into the waters like lemuria

just the tips of buildings marking the way to what was once but now is not and never will again

as lady liberty suffocates

toxicity in her red white and blue veins

carbon builds up and forms into scales

a lizard queen of wasted ways

purple mounds of morbid obesity

above the genetically modified plains

the rivers flow sweet with corn syrups flows

spilling into everything

the bitter seed takes root and blossoms into despair