How more people in love
Don't kill each other
Strength of will
Or fear of law
I guess
And I would back
The latter
*
honesty can get you killed these days
we talk loosely--carelessly--
thinking ourselves among friends
and suddenly you're in a refrigerator
accosted by negativists who denounce all good
as if it were a grand lie and that truth can only be
dirty and humiliating--they look for evil and find it
then turn and say "see?"
now I understand the mountain men of the Old West
who saw the lie of good and bad alike
and said "the hell with it"--
I admire them as I/we endure our technological world society
run by both tyrannies alternately (but actually in unison)--
wish I could hunt game and grow gardens--
think I'd better learn--unless death spares me
the post-apocalyptic hell of a "New Golden Age"--
who--help us all?!
*
thank whatever power the One (for lack of an adequate word) is
that the moment is calm
that love and power are not present before me at this time--
may we all make it home one way or another
may we all find that peace that always around us
despite our lack of notice
Content (c) 2008-2011 Philip Milito.
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