Neon Eye Cage Conclusions
by Michael Doyle

In the heart of the neon eye cage of the city
The glitz is overdone and isn't really pretty
But despite the walk-in of unsteady delusions
It is a happenstance that brings certain conclusions

One of these is the need to reach unity 
Of some kind that coexists within the variety
Of choices that we have staring us in the face
As the essence of beauty lingers in its trace

It's in the acquiring habits of reading
That we find our minds and hearts pleading
To develop the uncharted regions of our minds
It's across the pages read that we steadily find

All those things that remind and grow to bind
Us to peace and refuges of insight that are kind
We find an agreement that poetry wears the crown
As we learn enough rules to break and then choke down

That a successful life carries the burdens of memory
And how most of us string it together in fragility
That only mediocre persons are always at their best
While the rest of us struggle forward in this test

We walk forward, bleeding into life's firing line
Finding love sometimes good, despite our funny Valentines
Lost in the fallen moments of our colorful imaginarium
That too often turns bleak like a faded screamnasium

The greater tragedy is not that no one gets out alive
But that so many cease to love before we at last arrive
At the pearly gates, we were taught leads to sanctuary
Finding that our best attempts are sadly quite contrary

To that golden rule that serves as a splendid quotation
Useful as it is as we struggle with our life's narration
Just another moment of sheer-headed, stolen consequence
As Heaven and Hell weigh our measure in recompense

(c)January 26, 2024   Michael Doyle
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