Sunday, January 01, 2023

If There’s Anything I Can Do

Hard times wield an angry hammer

Without conscience or discretion. 

Blind side strikes with

Steely stealth and noxious

Brutish attitude.

 

Havoc grabs the rein and leaves the gypsy

Lost without direction,

Traveling in a downward spiral

Into silent solitude.

 

Comes a voice in tainted warning,

Ominous in its inflection,

Mettle-gauging caterwauling

Bent on testing fortitude.

 

Subtleties and undertones

Defy all efforts of detection

Until the veil is lifted

So the truth is unsubdued.

 

And if by chance my being there

Can offer solace or protection,

My hand is held in offering

If there’s anything that I can do.

 

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