loyalty

requested for commitment

to the ambiguous.

dedicate to it:

verity.

faulty funds

invest in broken.

diminishing dividends

yield an unsatisfying return.

paid for by posterity.

our comfort for

no more.

i,

not them.

they are human,

but they are not pure.

undeserving and undesired.

living fringes of the brink on the rim

obscurity in the mission.

state a purpose,

or become

one.

of us now.

they want trust.

the process auditors

compute metrics arbitrarily.

their goals don't do me any favors.

blindly allotting expectations

adheres me to liability,

irresponsibility,

laziness.

faith and divinity

demand my devoted integrity.

loyalty to a fault wants sacrificial meat -

one restitute pound for offense.

a public exsanguination

witnessed.

watch the guilty

swinging and still loyal

to align with poverty and them.

they should have known

better and been

born rich.

r'amen.