May Ides

You would be revolutionaries

complaining at every forum of the evils

of government -- your true adversary

is not "the State" but the people who

support and create it.

You are mere malcontents -- not the

People's heroes.

True heroes don't waste their resources

tearing down.

They take the responsibility to work

usefully to improve life possibilities.

Peruse your skill set --

What can you do?

True leaders strive, not to highlight what is wrong, but to overwrite

with sensible solutions.

Their clamor for opening often comes from

suffering an underlying mindset, conscious or not,

of "survival of the fittest" -- that those who fall

to disease thus cull the herd and make us stronger.


I am simply someone following a fascination.

Where is that vibrant energy I counted on

to blare out what I must say with focused

grace, layered like festival cake

in ritual and potent spice?

Of course the men who casually abuse women they have power over don't get the uproar.

For her it was a life changing trauma; for him nothing of note.

Throwing myself over the edge -- lucky enough

to land on my feet

without breaking my legs.

The world has become stale -- everyone worn

down and out.

A multi-layered mess

We did it to ourselves

out of greed and other

kinds of stupidity.

You think you are defending your tribe

by attacking folks with articulable differences?

No!

You are the lesser, the bad

people -- you destroy the reputation,

the good name, of our society, our nation,

our human race.

5/11-16/20