Modern

Life built upon assumptions
meaning proscribed
by frauds and pretenders
the pomposity of authority
packaged as intellect
handed down only
by towering institutions
until time shifts
as it always does
and the modern passes
into a time before
fading while it clings
steadfastly to imagined power
wishing to reshape
reality into its own image
repainting God
into a fractured mirror
perpetually
leaving the truth behind – Caroline A. Slee