Systematic Delays - Acrostic Sonnet

Systematic delays correspond to chronic
Yet semi-conscious self-sustained fish for failure.
Such rendez-vous manqués correspond to Dahlias
Turned topsy-turvy to sequent seasons' magic -
Extending pastel blooms in profusion frantic
Mysteriously during fretful frosty night.
Although good intentions are pleaded deep insight
Tells another story, of a catastrophic
Inability to organize strategic
Choices against a background that is daylier
Disturbed, more difficult - mental marginalia.
Expediency first succeeds, then, chaotic,
Leads down to disaster, to life deprived of light -
A suicidal spiral whose ‘whY? ' stays out of Sight!

poem by Jonathan Robin
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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