Don’t start with contrition–
how you didn’t mean to, how you
rue the results of the actions
that brought us all to this place
where it seems the only way forward
is to give up and be be swallowed
by despair.
Don’t answer every question with
the anger of guilt, an attack masking
the refusal to ever admit that you
knew the ending but thought
it would not be laden with consequences,
given the assurance that you
would be protected.
You pretended not to see,
to know, to understand the evil
that seeps even through the walls
of superiority and raw fear
you built to keep yourself
untouched by what others
experience.
You dismissed the world
outside your circle, considered it
beyond your personal responsibility
or control, your conclusions
leaping into the arms of death
which has no loyalty to any time
or space.
Now what you didn’t do
or say or think about
expands to include the exclusive
as well as the excluded
to fade the fortunes
of both the lucky and
the lost.
The currents recognize no
artificial boundaries.
The transmission of sorrow
travels into every corner
of acceptance, denial, and bridge
that attempts to turn back, turn away,
or cross.
I know NaPoWriMo asked for a humorous rant. But my anger at the moment is not funny.
K. 
I might be seeing too much in the painting, but the column in the centre wreathed in orange and spouting red destruction, looks familiar.
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I think its open to interpretation. We can all come up with some worthy subjects for this rant.
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The hair is quite striking though.
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Indeed.
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I’m sorry about whatever circumstances have made you angry, Kerfe.
Yours,
David
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Thanks David. A combination of many people and events. Good to get it out every once in awhile.
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I know sometimes ‘ it seems the only way forward
is to give up and be be swallowed
by despair.’
But if we do that, they’ve won. Keep ranting but keep fighting, I say!
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Don’t worry, I’m not ready to give up yet.
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There is certainly a lot to be angry about at the moment. If I started to rant, it would not be humorous either.
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It does help to spew it out sometimes. (K)
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😀
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It’s good to get that out of your system. I see the black hole of a mouth spewing its death. The person/entity isn’t named but I can guess who the spewer that will get caught up in the vortex like the rest of us is.
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There’s no escape. Thanks Jade.
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You’re welcome. You’re right, we’re in a closed terrarium 😦
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ouch, echoes mine …
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Could be applied to many persons and subjects,,,
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sadly yes …
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