The Real World

We are befuddled.
The future is opaque.
The past has become a dispute over meaning.

Therein too stands a need for reconciliation.
The past and the future as one,
Transcended.

Still, this is a world of policy dispute.
Of governments pretending they know.
Of leaders giving us certitude
Of true believers telling us what is…and what is not.

Where does befuddlement lead?

Tyranny over self….over others.
Not the tyranny of bayonets only…though that too.
Tyranny of freedom without justice.
Of equality without difference.
Of hope without practice.
Of death without life.
Of theory without experience.
Of love bereft of friendship.
Of true belief over possibility.

Is this the real world?
It is certainly a noisy one.
Where is the silence?

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