home Poem List next poem How Can We All Be Fooled Many claim many more have long been fooled Confusing others at how this can be That masses of the more minded were wooled By illusioned justice and symmetry Perception of action concluding guilt Requires what judgement would call evidence Justifying empathy's trust to wilt As weaver's of rope observe providence Until falsehood's laughter echoes no more Calm gentle swinging sounds in morning's chill When single shadows sway relative lore Hanging where they were placed by greater will Witnessing for politics is not speech Of the type conducive to stable time During which faith is held without truth's breach Allowing for generational rhyme Needed to understand language and trace Citing tribal foundation's of reason Denoting connotation's formal grace Defining culture with no real season Beyond sleight of hand swinging drones when buzzed Twisting meaning's relation thru action Grinding critic's veneer 'til meaning's fuzzed Until false thoughts in hope's space lack traction (c)ERA 07:55 AM 2/19/03