THE BRAKES

Dream stoppers plans
that plot to build mazes of madness
out of the “why’s”
they drill
from one’s soul
while lugging around
Paper Mache haloes and wing
as well as pretending
the cross they bought on credit
at an amusement park
is really from the Holy Land.
Claiming it was a gift
received from an angel.
but the real tale
remains untold.
it is a prayer
for vengeance
claimed as love
and uttered in phrases
of sixty-six words.