consternate


his every pleasantry slides into enuie
his every smile fades to discouragement
his coherency always dissipates

inside his anger boils frustration
inside his hurt lives intemperance
long habit dictates his intensity

sometimes he sees possibility
commonly he finds calamity
in fierce repeated discontinuity

near to his achievement is chaos
near to his worthiness is brokeness
noisily masking his better intention

he walks beneath dark clouds
he lives in shallow consternation
sometimes a poor journey ends also in a poor place Marcel Marceau - the ultimate conveyer of consternation
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