Long Division

Long Division        3/9/2015

Sixteen days,

Ten minutes and fifty-three seconds

Almost nothing gained

And everything lost.

Today I walked the streets

The same ones I remember

But either backwards or forwards

It is more alien than ever. 

Dawning is the horror

That we have not

Learned a thing

Still ready to believe

Almost anything, we are told. 

Programmed to lie

And educated in the dark

We are blind to the reality

Drooling on our necks.   

Beyond hatred

And cruel indifference

We care more about fitting in

Than truth. 

What others protect

We give away

Sacrificing the innocent

Beholden and dumb.  

Controlled, and manipulated

We pay for our own demise

Believing against all reason

That it is right

And it is fair. 

Propped up every day

The same sacred lie

Disproved by reality

A thousand times ten thousand. 

This will fall hard

And implode upon itself

As the hated

Are pitted against each other

For murder and for fun. 

But we go on

Just like yesterday

Walking on a train track

In a long dark tunnel.   

It is poison

But even that

Is better than ignorance

Squeezed dry

Without knowing at all. 

We pour ourselves out

In hopes of something better

And now more than ever

It is more than enough.  

I pray for you

Yes even you

Whomever, wherever 

Apart and alone.

They search for us

While we search for God

Watching forever

The dance macabre.