Chapter Conservation of Idols
Law of Conservation of Mass in Chemistry
“Matter is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed.”
Does anyone matter to you?
Do you really care
How one reacts to the other?
Did you really mean
All the sweet words you spoke
Before you stripped yourself of the
Bonds that tied you to your idol,
And left to somewhere else
That better suited
Your selfish interests?
Are you not tired
Of milking the life
Out of another ‘someone’ -
Like drinking dry
The cola from a can,
Taking your fill,
Then crushing them
Under your foot -
Spitting on their memory,
Leaving them to rot and rust,
Tortured by their shame of
Wallowing in your acidic saliva?
As long as you have
Someone to leech off,
As long as you have
Someone you claim
‘Mattered’ in your life,
As long as you have
Someone sitting
In your throne to
Rule your fantasies…
You don’t care.