Two Step

Two steps forward
and we’re walking in place.
Too slow to keep up
And the world’s picking up the pace.

Our Pavlovian alarm-clocks
Remind us of our duty
To our sons and daughters
Our society and our culture
To pick ourselves up
And to “pull up our socks”

Two steps forward
And we’re walking in place
Too tired to run
As we slowly begin to efface,

as our visage
ground to a smoothness
against the stone
That forces us to goosestep
Shows us to comply
as our car engines drone.

Too weak to stand
As we feel ourselves erase
Two steps forward
And we’re walking in place.