Curtain Call

Curtain Call                10/26/2017

Sometimes you win

And sometimes

You are losing

But there has never been

A better time

For living and for choosing. 

Outside our window

Everything is there

Visible to anyone

Who opens their eyes. 

In the darkness

We did not know

And much has been hidden

From you

And from me.

A few phone calls away

The wall of silence

Led the way

Controlling everything

We saw

And heard. 

But who among us

Ever bothered to see

The reality in our streets

Then and now. 

The curtain is torn

And now we can see

The men with the levers

Exposed at last

And ever more desperate.

Should have known

All along

As obvious as the sun

One decade

After another. 

Strung along

By a suicidal cabal

Hell bent for destruction

Doubled up

And doubled down. 

And how many

Were ruined

Along the way

Vilified and voiceless

Covered up

And covered over. 

Lost to time

And hidden in the past

The great unspoken

That no one

Dare shall speak. 

And what of

The lost?

Those who did the work

And built the world

Gone in an instant

And forgotten. 

Choose them

And keep

The fire burning

Standing in remembrance

To those who came

And are not. 

Beyond the veil

We live by appearance

Playing out a game

Unable to see

The source

Or the code.

Nothing hidden

And no longer

In doubt

The times

Of all times

To seek

And know. 

The wind blows

Through the window

Flung open for a time

We cannot determine. 

But here it is

For you and for me

The truth of sunlight

For all who yet

May know and see.