Painful Present Tense

Belligerent a land
Ungainly, unedifying…
And on it
Unflagging an expectation
Present
In the absence of, ingenuous
But meddlesome flowers
Life, in liaison with
Mask’s levity
Toy’s tintinnabulations
Tenaciously….
Perhaps, in the eloquence
Of an expectation
Lost the emollience of heart
Emphatic
Only a painful Present Tense….