Sliding Window

Sliding Window               9/28/2016

Quiet as a mouse

In the dead of night

The subversion of truth

And speech.    

We who peered

Behind the curtain

Saw more than they wanted

Shrugging off the sleep

Of numberless years.

Rubbing our eyes in disbelief

That so many were used

All of us duped

And all of us fooled. 

Right under our nose

And barely mentioned at all

The passage of truth

From searchable

To forbidden.

All of it for power

And all of it for control

The masses used

And guided

Just because

They can. 

The change has come

And many have awakened

Too many to jail

Or murder. 

So now the window closes

Unnoticed in the night

Slipping by

And slipping through

Unreported and unopposed. 

Win or lose

They cashed their checks

Each one privileged

And feeding at the trough. 

We believed

And we tried

Doing our best

Day in

And day out. 

But all of it was rigged

And all of it

Was squandered

Wasted away

On nothing at all. 

Pray lest the spark go out

Leaving us all

Fumbling in the darkness

Led by lies

To our own slaughter. 

Let the light expose all

And always find a way

To share the truth

Even when shunned

And even when punished. 

That they day will yet come

That all is known and understood

Shinning like the sun

Forever.