Tag: politics

Unfathomable

Some days
It’s like waking
Into a surreal world
Unfathomable events
Unimaginable consequences

I remind myself
The chaos of such moments
Brings change
The necessity of it
The inevitability of it

I love when people discuss opposing ideas
In language spoken truly
With humility
Intent upon discovery
More than defense
Or the objective of winning

Only under such conditions
Can the light of both ideas
Converge upon unexplored ground
Where it often illuminates
An insight better than either idea

Sometimes

The heat’s too hot
The cold’s too cool
No middle ground
To stand on

I choose one side
Or straddle both
The conflict
Still conflicted

What kind of person, with the power and resources to do so much for so many others, chooses instead to exploit them?

Night fell
On the last ride
At the end of the trail
On those uprooted
Murdered
Stripped of identity

An image a white man made
Which earned white man’s awards
In a museum of white man ways
A monument to a way that was

Sometimes I sit and think about
The men hist’ry treats with greatness
Often with the best intentions
They philosophize false witness

They script the creeds
Direct the deeds
They lead a people
To their fate

Or is it ‘fate’ created?

In a haze of incense
The pilgrims
And the tourists
Come

To Tibet
In the heart of Beijing
It’s so decreed
By The Party

On a beautiful night
Sunlight still waning
I look across the bay
To the skyline beyond

Marvelling
At the achievements
Of time and millions of men

Barbed wire and bullet holes
A 20 year old reminder
Of a country broken
And rebuilt
Broken again
And rebuilt

Walls within walls
Doorways within doorways
Once forbidden
Once foreboding

Layers of mystery
Peeled away
By time
Politics
And Money