Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Last Rant Impromptu

    by    shaun    lawton   aka      Thornswrath 

This is the last rant from me You may be hearing for Awhile 
Cornered in a cranny on the final Nook & day to Smile 
  Crunneled in the window streaming Down the Drain 
 A Garden made of Diamondbacks while grown a gruesome mane
 
A Life of woe transformed by bliss and a Freedom aperiodic 
 Husband Wife a Ho left propped up in the garden Shed 
 With a Tee hee hee and an O no mo' take my Enemy instead!
 Through blurry tears screams can be heard Still across the years 

Into Time's Chasm we're surfing polishing our dream with Sarcasm
a Pitch black reflection chrome starred and Blind sided by smiling Time 
Snap shut up in a flattened box, Imprinted into another Dimension 
  Just a Legend into which You were elected to be  Born 

This is the last chance to make up for it, to take someone's hand for a Dance 
  It's not about time or money or how many years you may have Left 
 Yet the expectation lingers in the Minds who had forgotten the Truth 
  The Next in Line becomes the Echo of the generational Mind 

Once the stage has been seized Upon and taken like a table for Granted 
 The wrecks that have sunken like a Dream escaping through a rising Bubble 
 Leaving tracers of streaming aether behind in a Trail blazing Signature 
 The Age of Treks over the Empire of Luck given time to fully Mature 

With forty minutes left of what mass Consensus has come to Dictate 
 Across the span of a Myriad of years, both Granddaddies and Mothers 
  having been interconnected by personal cellphones and national mail
 Remain indoors at the end of the Festival of abandon and Rediscovery 

This becomes the final raving chance to Vend all the pent up Rage 
 bottled up from a few stacks of months Inherited from our own Wake 
Something in season crept up and out from Under the Moon 
 Disengagement from manufactured Placards warning about Soon 

In twenty five minutes the Snake with have shed the Last of its Skin 
 As we enter into the Year of the Horse for another Cycle to Renew 
Some people say we can't begin, Others that we can't afford to Lose
No worry in twenty-two minutes Two eternities may Collude 
Here's where it starts to get burning as the subtext heats up a little bit 
Fear has played its part til we start Turning toward one another for a Start
 who's counting the minutes anyhow While the Daring just blindly Leap 
 out of the Windows of Chance to the Wind of having unexpectedly Arisen 
 carrying the clout of the sins of a friend in Support of a common Cause 
 Cruelty & Register onto the Mind to be an Imprint on our Memory 
 Once called a curling away photograph For escaping through a Reflection
 Inverted in an infinite hallway Lost in the maze of the Mirror 
  It crossed my mind I may never find my way at all without being Converted
 phantom thoughts become the spooks for Frightening those left Behind  
A rant I'd come to trot out sooner than a Quick of lightning strikes the Mind 

Ten minutes in the countdown begin to Mark the mysterious Territory 
  Carried in the hearts of men the World won over in a Hurry 
 Accounts may differ and they vary in Terms of personal Expression 
  and the true among the blue will reach out their Roots a Dream and a Blessing