The Cold Heart Of August: ( 2021)

News comes thick and fast:
another fatal car crash;
blunt impact injuries
To the torso. Bitter August
always seems to bring
despair. O she is truly
The cruellest of months!
I feel a cold wind blowing
From the East: time
to prepare for another
autumn I guess. Hope
is a tall tower always
Striving hard to rise
above the abyss. God it's
such a long way down!
Many former angels blessed by
the Light have fallen
from such dizzying heights:
a warning to us
all it seems. Once that lady
was a sweetheart, but
now she is just another
Washed- up victim,
of the deadly needle chill.
Alas, Murphy's Law
appears to apply
in most cases. For if
anything can go wrong it
will. Hobbes believed
that life is short and brutal.
Better light candles
and stay indoors, rather than
face sordid details
of a world so out of joint.