Audible

Audible                      2/4/2016

I get up

And ride the express

Endlessly droning on

Into another gray morning. 

Others sit in heaps

And mumble in code

Indecipherable strangers

To me and to them.

What others feared 

Has already happened

As we sleep in cocoons

Alien to each other. 

Long ago isolated

And long ago diluted

Our hopes, dreams, and aspirations

Discounted, and forgotten. 

The weight of numbers

Grows heavier and heavier

Ignorant, violent

Easily bought,

And sold.   

Drowning out

All individualism

And tipping the scales 

Once and forever.    

All who oppose are surely attacked

Their voices silenced

And reputations trashed

No tool left unused

Or dirty trick untried. 

Phony, fake,

Forced and planned

Food for fodder

To poison hearts

With lies. 

Yes, my friends 

There is war

A war without a name

Its victims buried,

Voiceless, and nameless. 

Happening today 

And happening tomorrow

Even if you did not hear

And even if,

You dared not speak.

Targeted, tracked

Assaulted and shot

Bleeding out

For nothing at all. 

Heroes are in movies

And heroes are in books

But here evil reigns

Everyday

And everywhere. 

The good are afraid

And the powerful compromised

Protected by money 

And above reproach. 

Heaven help the man

Who blows the trumpet

Sounding the alarm

About the obvious truth. 

And God save 

All who hearken

Knowing what it means

And what it warns.  

Calling the remnant

Who never knew their name

Lost and wandering

For time and times again.   

A call to search 

And watch for clues

Hidden in the recesses

That only a spider can find. 

All else is compromised

And all else is fixed

Long ago beholden

Tongue tied and dead.

Burning through the curtain

To see what is behind

Who it is that pulls the levers

And lying from the start