Breathe

Quiet the words that arise

Strike the record

Wring out in puddles

Ring out in silence

Echoing drops like rain

Reigning like pretender kings

Kinks and knots tying down

Restraining and retraining the mob

Crowding out the voices that sing

Singling out only those that agree

A greed unwelcome but accepted

Excepted from a list of sins

Not seen as wrongs

Against the unarmed

Unharmed by mere sentences

Sentenced to life in ignorance

Ignored by masses

Amassed in Mass

Masterfully worshiping reflections

Reflecting not

Seeing image without form

Unstructured observance

From without, not within

Withered stances

Decaying in the wind.