The Fallen Cornerstone Poem by N.K. Trevor

The Fallen Cornerstone



Their Father, Prodigal …
Closest to alcohol,
And dearly, a legion to pride
An egocentric being,
Full of own-self contentment
Of not self-achieved triumphs

His acquaintances lead-
In the way of his insensible life
With his own blood and flesh
Finding their - beyond the pale - existence
Within the labyrinth of his self-colonized thoughts

A fallen corner stone he is…
In his own homestead,
An un-symbiotic pest to his diligent wife,
A toxic weapon to impede her endeavors -
Constantly regressing
The upsurge of her toiled sweat
He calls it ‘The inevitable fate’
– She calls it ‘Marriage’

He affably appeals to the fictitious gaze
Of those insentient outsiders -
Who he regards much as acquiescent friends
Yet friends who but rob him off every day…
From the only sanity that there is for him –
- HOME -

And as much as he strives to relish them,
They jest him in the shadows as a fool

And a wretched stranger
Among the collar of his own natives

He condemns the gaffes of his fore folks
But in twofold,
Mimics the flaws of his fore father’s
And it’s awfully a pity, rather than ironic
That the dire wolf would in the end
Be cloaked in the sheep’s skin…

Like a VENOMOUS viper
He is enthralled with an arsenal
Of disdained expressions
And deeply soiled words…
As an amour and a shield rooted to obscure
His paternal responsibilities

His mocks are ferociously profound
At the fall of his children-
Who without his credit
Have schooled way ahead to headway
And within shadows with his “conceited friends”;
He viciously sharpens the blades
Of his indecorous tongue…
In a wait to attack his children fiercely,
In their time of weakness and despair

He laughs them off – Gravely!
As they struggle feebly to recuperation
And beats his chest hysterically,
In triumph over their anguish
But upon their resurgence to sovereignty,
He - on tenterhooks - clings upon them
For definitive dependence

Funny enough -
They still call him ‘Father’

Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: family
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From the Collection – Falling Corner Stones
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