Do Not Alight Here

The signs were good.
Suggestions of a sweeter life.
But it’s right to do one’s homework;
examine facts and ascertain reality.
As much must correlate to guarantee
mundane is not exchanged for misery.

The spark was there.
Illuminated platform edge
‘gainst which the rush of life and death
entice the uninspired to test mortality.
Awakened from anaesthetising apathy,
in time to intervene and halt a tragedy.

But what of us,
confined to chore and chastity?
Two hedonists subdued in vow
respecting, dutiful, eschewing lustfulness.
Familiarity breeds truculence
and shooting from the hip without pretence.

Is it enough?
This peace amid the rationale.
A momentary amnesty.
Content with coexisting and cohabiting.
Accommodations that defy examining,
for fear the repercussions will be damaging.

These pangs of truth -
that no-one is without constraint.
Diaphanous the veil of youth and innocence.
No unencumbered freedom that can recompense
the abandonment of decency and common sense.

1 : https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/8pyyrb/comment/e0fa2vq?st=JKV7B2HV&sh=94aa1173

2 : https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/comments/935ohl/comment/e3b4nt6?st=JKV7BNBF&sh=cb49c915