Drifting

Drifting                            10/6/2015

Unhinged and off balance

Tilted sideways

And veering off track

The world has lost its moorings

And cannot go back. 

Inside out, and upside down

We call darkness light

And light we call darkness

Willfully blind

Dumb and deaf. 

Foolish, and cowardly

We turn tail and run

All nodding our heads in unison

To the most obvious of lies. 

Secret deals and secret meetings

Hidden motives and hidden truth

Thinly disguised is the hatred

Boring through our skulls.    

Flooded with detritus

And stabbed in the back

Bludgeoned by a reality

Unacknowledged and buried.

But who can hide

And who can run

With everything at stake

And everything in ruins. 

Sometimes I wonder how

How the foolish can continue

Looking at their children

After they have sold us out

For nothing at all. 

But they are the deluded

The purchased, and the cowed

Fools fighting with shadows

And pretending to care. 

They have slept with monsters

And they have laid down with beasts

Betraying every oath

And every loyalty. 

Rolling over without opposition

And shouted into silence

Unable to declare the truth

For everyone to hear. 

They shall stumble

And regret their cowardice

Betrayed by betrayers

Just like you knew they would. 

Saying nothing

And conveying everything

All about who is favored

And who is hated.  

I am the hated

But, I bear it with pride

Unafraid

And stronger every day. 

Feed on it

And pray it through

Standing fast

And watching everything.