palimpsest
Repeating on you
past crises effaced
forgotten in the
lost in the
infinite remoteness of
past election cycles
polished teeth
polished lies
rinsed rewritten
represented
re-presented
as a clean sheet
faux hope
faux promise
the shadow of the past
erased
fragments scattered
connections lost
causal chains
broken like soakaways
woodlands ings
floodplains flood
… inexplicably …
over walls dykes
banks …
as low as a moral
compass.
[ 5th March 2016, SG10 - palimpsest ]
