3.1.17

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