passed over put aplenty
penury upon my plate
sat sour and stern craving
needs necessitate

meals of midnight marauders
feasts for flying fowl
dances with docile dragons
hoots and humorous howls

lost long and low these loves
moreover many more
care not callous comrades
deceive, deceive, done for

famished felines fare
my interior ripped raw
beg beloved benevolence
hidden ‘hind heartless ah

poverty pastes and pummels
figured in future forthcoming
vagrant and vile vagabond
offered only annoyed humming

not eager for incensed attention
wish not what pitiless wield
six lives lost, lonesome, longing
under encumbrances yield

anniversary anguished, unable
big burden befall the bitter
help and hope for home mine
or languish in love’s litter

empty each embrace echoes
stirs souls sans actionable strokes
alone and abandoned our assembly
dead we despair dire yokes

move not meaningless motion
proffer you purposelessness
wallow in want, wish, and windswept
hearts holding hopeless dismiss