fool's gold

beguiled by a pretender's desecration
for a fool's coronation
from time out of mind
mankind attempting to find
the universal mind
a transpersonal mime
transcending time
for a crown sublime
but a bauble to blind
on a clown asinine

crying hell into heaven
a destiny to leaven
want of expunging the stain
of profligate shame
fatuously vain
feigning to reign
as the accuser defamed

we're looking for free
hiding behind what we see
preferring the spell
of a gussied up hell
but it's easy to tell
despite what we sell
we're still where we fell
tossing trinkets in a wishing well



Written by Scott Schoffstall
© May 26, 2011
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