Something Bleeding This Way Comes
by Michael Doyle

Word slithered along the corporate ground
Where all is ancient, and nothing new is found
Secrets told through half-truths revealed
Remind us all of the things better off concealed

Pregnant pauses signal latent twists in positioning
As corporate successions lament their transitioning
Tired dinosaur bones rise to the top of early graves
That even a space-age messiah rejects instead of saves

The birthright of the children remains in pain and misery
As we have seen too often through royalty's faded history
Stoically carried on, passed through to each generation
This is the tragedy of this journey's jaded penetration

Motherhood's dramatic endgame trickles the imagination
Yet, a mother's worse self is retained despite the maturation
Dramatic wrenches falter the heights of ambitious inclination
In a final countdown that hints at fundamental recrimination

In a world too rushed to slowdown and comfortably dine
There is only one way to continue a dynastic bloodline
Only the women of this life bleed and know true agony
Subjected as they are to the traces of patriarchal misogyny

The birthright of the children remains in pain and misery
As we have seen too often through royalty's faded history
Stoically carried on, passed through to each generation
This is the tragedy of this journey's jaded penetration

(c) May 31, 2023  Michael Doyle
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