IMMORTALS

INMORTALS

as the division between
dream and reality, sanity
and madness
ultimately collapses

I think of the identifications
made and the frameworks
devised
       for living our lives

at one time or another we were
anarchists, liberals , communists,
conservatives, reactionaries,
empathic social democrats

becoming neo this

and that
as the years whooshed past
and the spirit
of our youth
unmistakably began to die

and now we sit
wisdom badly waned
rationality denied

so much worse for wear
the world
(much worsened world)
made to suffer
for our
presence

great sin of ego
desire to keep
what
    was for all
for our
few selves

our wealth a
sign of favour,
                 as if
selected
by immortals