A billion lost suns

A billion lost suns

Countless broken planets

Hopelessly endangered species

Groping this way and that

Searching

For answers to questions

Best left unanswered.

Faithless flesh

Hoping to be redeemed

When nothing happens

To bedhoppers

Bellicose behemoths

And sociopaths eating away

At every good intention.

Bug-eyed greenhorns

Practice absolution

As a reprieve from certainty

Too many pray for second chances

When there are none.

Whatever the apologists

Demand

To maintain their grip on power

There is only one life.

Perhaps it is better

To spend it out of the gutter

Whilst there is a choice

Some people don’t have.