Fettles & Shackles Poem by John Sensele

Fettles and shackles entomb sombre
Corners where families despite keeping up appearances
Ache in flakes and slakes in number
Quality, diversity and varieties no longer brook dubious dances.

Fettles and shackles heckle families' homilies
On prayer life, abstinence, virginity and holy Spirit temple
Which in modern times climb mountains families
Bury in a hurry in prehistoric eras when morals proved so simple.

Fettles and shackles frighten daylights out of youths
Derided for ditching culture and switching off parental voice
In preference for voices on Facebook and Twitter booths
Where the neglected, the flabbergasted and the scorned make a choice.

Fettles and shackles buckle under the aegis of communication
Between youths and elders, believers and heathens engage in a dialog
To chart with both parties parting with their entrenched convocation
In favour of flavors and odors more productive than a pusillanimous prolog.