The No Win

The "No Win"

I have never met and probably never will meet all of you
Who read this poem but I can say without doubt that you, too,
Have experienced this impasse at least once in your life
And, without doubt, that was your primary source of strife.

No matter how you dissect the problem - you find no solution!
Some contrived trick of fate just revels in your unearned solution.
Maybe we, originally, contributed to this never ending situation
But we can't, in good conscience, feel it was our total creation.

According to published "stress limits" it would register about a ten
On the Richter scale of "sure fire" and "never fail" destruction! When
Like long ago "sinners" according to whomever's condemnation,
Were tied to the whipping post and the sinner's only confirmation

That they were still a human being - was the physical pain -
When lash followed lash in hellish torment, again and again.
There are other situations that relive that whipping post
And it rears its ugly head, even now, as some "evil ghost!"

There are many "no win" situations we experience against our will.
You hate the hopelessness and the control exerted over your will.
It is one of the worst sins one human can commit against another
And that's their glory of great fulfillment that they commit against their brother.

Some people lose their lives after they lost their will. It is the right
Of every one to have control over their own actions and their life.
The pitiful being who has to torture - to feel important - wrecks many lives
And goes their unmindful way, conscience-less, to destroy still other's lives.