Photo Poet David Morris

Hell is With Us

A predator has come with a smile and a promise;
no regrets, remorse, emotion, or quarter;
use, abuse, lye, steal, shift, hide.

Quislings come and go;
each cannot believe they have fallen;
the next charmed to take their place.

Cunning, quick, manipulating, parasitic, impulsive;
grandiose goals set without a thought;
no responsibility, having done their best.

David Morris
2006