Bleak Vision

Somewhere deep within her

genetic code a vast and abiding

antipathy to life itself

and its elusive fortunes

settled itself into her remote

subconscious, guiding her

remorselessly through a

lifetime of scornful rejection

of others around her, a

contempt toward those

closest to her, embittering

her ever further from her

connection to place and time,

the society she rejects, those

values and needs, responses

and accommodations to eke

out a place for themselves as

best they can.  Their moral

failings loom large in her

misanthropic view of a

miserable world, become

exacerbated by her relentlessly

morose and overtly truculent

presence within that sadly

inadequate world she inhabits.