Packaged Souls Poem by segun Johnson Ozique

A life carefully orchestrated
Charily packaged and curtained
Within a domesticated space
Policed by offers of responsibility
And any who break such penal
Tagged, rightly, gone astray:
The new creed of our time.

The desire to dominate others;
Subjugate their wills, their power
To subservience and servitude:
Cultivate serfdom and kingdom
Is hardly unique to one generation:
Only now is a craving, different
Adding to capture mind and hearts
Is scripturally capturing the souls
With tales, heart rendering brutality
That rather the emerge to moral light
Is the plunge into deeper darkness;
Wrapped in symbolism,
Ritualism and experimentation
Hemming several into fanaticism
Various others into absolute bondage
And remaining others living lost in limbo