temperament of the obtuse

upon admiring your own reflection

it is certain
the mythos contents

the deluded self entitlement

this farce affords

takes you 

gratified
into the stagnant
complacent
somnolence of cognition
vast multitudes
of wasted energies
occupy

the cycle stymies
any possible progressions
toward lucidity

the vapid role embraced
leaves for want

offering
only
the
challenge of
being disengaged
from
its
perpetual
insolence

it is a common hopscotch
of easily read
easily fed

when the approach dissolves

a rigid facade

a mere muddle
is sensed

simple language designates
your convoluted course

exist in your pontifical character
without demur

those who truly see
will no longer merit
the vacuous energies
you have conceded among

those who do not
will occupy the empty space
within you
indentured to mollify
the pique