Big Easy

Big Easy

Barging in through narrower than necessary ports
And bays, the locks fail to protect
The unprepared citizenry for the impending flood
Of indignities and revelations.

Corrupted by a sense of security—unjustified by
History and made subservient to nature—
Truths with which nobody is rightly equipped to deal
Destroy and wash away.

The swarthiness and inconsistent haughtiness
That informs a hollow chain
Commanded rightly from afar, uncommanded
Rightly from afar.

Rushing in on steel-clad barges, blown by fate,
By nature, by the very nature of
Destruction, the floods destroy and cleanse
The soul of decadence.