Meaning, Duty & Suffering

Without Meaning there is only
Duty
Which is Suffering
And abandonment of Duty
Which is also Suffering
In short
Men and women must fill their lives
With every two-bit Cause
Straining sinews to believe
It will end in time
Only the most broken, the most honest
In the clarity of their despair
See that every truth
Is self deception
Every meaning
Deferred emancipation
And justification for the cycle of pain
All hope of future’s gain
A petty tyranny
A broken promise
Repeated endlessly