Left in the Limelight ©️

In the grand, teetering ballroom of modern ideals, where chandeliers flicker with borrowed light, the left-leaning darlings twirl, cloaked in their self-spun sainthood, and oh, how they dazzle themselves. They are the anointed, the poets of progress, lips pursed with purpose, eyes alight with the fever of their own myth. But darling, lean closer—past the perfume of their rhetoric—and you’ll catch the whiff of something sour, something hypocritical, curling like smoke beneath their satin hems. It’s a psychosis, my dear, a glittering madness, and I am done with their masquerade.

They speak of money as if it were a sin they’ve never kissed, their voices trembling with rehearsed disdain. Capitalism, they sigh, is a beast, a devourer of souls. Yet there they are, sipping cortados at cafes that charge six dollars a dream, their laptops adorned with stickers of rebellion, bought from the very empires they decry. They don’t hate money, no, no—they crave it, as fervently as any Wall Street wolf. They chase it in grants, in speaking fees, in the soft clink of crowdfunding coins, all while draped in the costume of ascetic virtue. It’s a performance, and they’re the stars, clutching their pearls while their wallets purr. Hypocrisy? It’s their lipstick, smeared across every vow.

And oh, the plans they weave! They stand atop their soapboxes, hair tossed like prophets, proclaiming blueprints for a world reborn. Equality! Justice! A planet cradled in green! But press them, darling, nudge their gospel with a single question, and watch the tapestry unravel. Their answers are air—lovely, fleeting, useless. They’re as lost as the rest of us, floundering in the chaos of existence, but they dress their ignorance in jargon, in hashtags, in the smug certainty of the lecture hall. Their vision isn’t clarity; it’s control, swathed in compassion’s silk. They’ll save you, they swear, but only if you kneel to their script. Clueless? Utterly. Yet they waltz on, blind to their own stumbles.

The contradictions pile like sequins in a seamstress’s lap. They preach tolerance, but their hearts are guillotines, slicing dissent with a smile. They champion freedom until it speaks in tones they don’t approve. They wail of division while carving the world into saints and sinners, their fingers dripping with the ink of judgment. It’s a fevered dance, this psychosis, where every flaw is flung outward, every mirror dodged. They are the heroes of their own fable, and woe to the fool who dares rewrite the tale.

I’m through, my loves, with their shimmering charade. They are not the oracles they imagine, nor the saviors they play. They’re mortals, messy and grasping, cloaked in a delusion so lush it could choke a garden. Let them spin, let them preen, let them drip with their own invented radiance. But I’ll be in the corner, sipping truth from a chipped glass, watching their masks slip, one glorious, hypocritical thread at a time.

The Loony Bin ©️

Rise in the hour where shadows grow thin, Where the light stumbles drunken, unsteady with sin, And the breath of the house, thick with its ghosts, Swirls in the lungs of the living, its hosts.

The doors groan awake, their hinges alive, Each creak a confession, each whisper contrived. The floors swell and buckle, drunk on despair, Carrying feet that move nowhere, nowhere.

At the long gray table, a carnival of dread, Where laughter shivers, where hunger is fed. Plates hold their secrets, mute and profound, Forks strike their rhythm, but never a sound.

The gardens outside—if gardens they are—Are fenced with the ribcage of some dying star. The trees are frozen in screams of green, While the wind gnaws the air, rabid and keen.

In the midmorning haze, they march us to prayer, Kneeling in pews that don’t take our weight, And the hymn of the broken, with voices undone, Rises to rafters that swallow the sun.

Afternoon sways in its lunatic tide, With a shuffle of hands and dreams misapplied. Paintbrushes falter on canvases torn, Where visions are birthed, but stillborn, stillborn.

Then comes the night, the hallowed despair, Where pills are handed like sacrament there. One for the silence, one for the screams, One to deny the betrayal of dreams.

The walls hum their madness, their cobwebbed tune, While the moon hangs limp like a punctured balloon. And the voices—oh, the voices—they rise, they fall, A choir of sorrow echoing all.

Sleep is a rumor, a gambler’s deceit, A shadowy promise that falters, retreats. The bed becomes prison, the pillow a stone, And you lie there unburied, yet utterly alone.

And so, the wheel turns, the cycle restarts, A parade of the damned with clockwork hearts. But the house breathes on, devouring the years, Feeding its belly with whispers and tears.

Oh, to tear through the dawn like a thief in the sun, To break this mad orbit, to end what’s begun, But the house is a labyrinth, a trap sprung deep, And its strange routine is the price of sleep.