In this modern world

In this modern world

Exchange

Peace of of mind

For economic gains

Left to wander unruly

Forfeit

Beauty

For efficiency

Such a modern concept

To isolate

To mutually exclude

We wonder

Why we wander

Want for more

In this modern day

To live

Devoid of aesthetic

To believe

Such an exquisite existence

Getting by

Unknown deprived

The dancing whisper

Sighing, suspiring

There must be more

Only need see

The Victorian lamppost

Baroque candelabra

Medieval torch

Seclude practical from high art

Principle of modernity

The modern denial, disbelief:

Beauty is inherent to invention

Evidenced from animal

To human ascension

This modern world

Color stripped away

Muted and toned

Garbed in grayscale gray

When labor laborizes

Producing productive technological tech

No space for beauty

Exhaled artistic breath

The sweetness of life

The joie de vivre

Replaced with algorithm

And poetic desire

Turned unadulterated greed

This modern life

Is this true modernity?

Seeping, sinking

Archaic alternity

This modern life

The artistic fire still burns

Pursuant

Surviving

For creative yearns

Just an ember

Small is she

Continuing to burn

For generation post-modernity

Beauty principled

Source of truth

Long live her reign

In her

Heals manmade modern pain

This modern world

Modern grief

Modern truth

Need only see past

For creative proof

The modernist pessimist

Slumbering

Modern ethos

Modern verbose

Awaits to be awakened by

Poetic prose

In this modern world

False power loud

But in the silence

Does art move the crowd

The dancing whisper

Painted pulse

Pragma and craft intertwine

The divine-given talents

Of humankind

In this modern world