all any of us want

peace

contentment

love

feeling safe

mind

body and

soul

…and we all want you to recognize the war you created in your head

                just as the one we are determined to attempt to avoid

                                is your self-determined creation

the mirror you employ

that reflects your pure soul?

what fantastic imagination! that

delusion and fabrication thereof

we just want resolution

no simple acquittal nor amnesty

just integrity without superiority

no divine warriors

or double-rainbow jazz hands

just impartial honesty

exorcise your magic mirror

excavate genuine archaeology

beyond the mutually consummated conceit

that discounted the foundation of vapor

upon which this house was built

see two pillars

side by side

cracking while still growing

crumbling from within

negligent faithful framing and

neither discharged of responsibility nor

immune to the pretense of righteous self-assurance nor

innocent vestigial vanity

both proud though

collapsing decayed

two legs in the dessert

declaring grand plans

drawn in haste and

built without infrastructure

announcing good intentions

while testifying to corruption

down the road below

we just

want

to move

forward

lock this chapter

                into

a vault for

                later

review. Please