the guilty party

[fledgist]

 too many answers come down to the same
non-explanation of the simple fact

we are the ones who always bear the blame

for all the anger we have one hard name

clear and precise both noble and exact

too many answers come down to the same

wave of exhaustion so that we must claim

not what we earned but all the goods we lacked

we are the

Comments

[eglantine_br]

The subject is suited, I think to the dizzy way that the poem goes around and around. I mean the subject and the form go together well, if that makes sense.

Also I am pretty awed by anyone who writes a villanelle!