Post Deception

Post Deception 12/23/2015 

It is not easy

To let go

And it’s not easy

To be wrong.

Knowledge can be a burden

As we watch

And comprehend

All that dies  

And fades away. 

If we could go backwards

We could change it all

But no one goes anywhere

Without dragging it behind. 

Others have played with fire

And they have burned me well

Scarred for life

From the inside out.

And I,

I have only watched

An observer

In my own narration

Staring though,

The looking glass. 

I get better

But I also forget

As I go through the motions

A million times or more.

Foolishly repeating every mistake

Programmed and dumb

Just as we always were

A thousand times before. 

Each and every day

We run the gauntlet

Uninformed

And unprepared.

There is no warning

But it’s not about 

Unwarranted fears

Setting us all up

Dead as a duck.

Nothing but a flat profile

Running on a belt

Something to knock over and kill

A nameless, faceless enemy

Hated and blamed. 

Silence can tell you everything

And the less that is said

The more you should know

The truth outright

And blazing in the sky. 

The rear future expands

And sends a shiver

Up my spine  

All understood

The warnings and the horror.

Desperate men

Make their final plans

Knowing their days are numbered

To do what they will. 

The window closes

But as it closes

Rage explodes 

In hatred,

And in murder.