URSS

Birth, Life, Death - Trauma, Turmoil, Tranquility,

Reconciliation found only in time’s grinding immutability.

Quest for meaning, purpose, revelational answers - mankind’s tragic folly.

Facing a cold, indifferent, uncaring world, forever void of teleology.

Competition, acquisition, the all-pervading commodification,

Materialism, consumerism, the blind fundamentalism.

A life without a legacy left, a life surely squandered?

Seek nourishment through fame, through fortune; quell the insatiable ego.

Educate, Masturbate, Speed-Date, Pro-Create,

Unique identities composing a society, or a faceless mass of homogeneity?

Stifle creativity, eradicate individuality; endorse sociability, breed conformity.

A camera surveying every person, A law dictating every action.

Three-piece suit, Windsor knot, pocket watch, Oxford shoes,

A leather briefcase laden with social preconceptions.

The unyielding facade of etiquette, of formality, of civility,

To hide the beast that lies beneath - the raw homo sapien, forever shirking life’s fundamental question.