When war broke out in previous times
it used to be common, in a good way,
to say 'the first victim in war is truth'.
Part of the truth being the victim of war
was being unable to find where we thought
truth used to be, when we tried to trace it back,
or find out where the truth was presently hiding.
The wider point was about the capacity
of peacetime propaganda in our own country
to make all seem well abroad, whilst 'over there'
(you name the country you understand little of)
persecutions go on which eventually spread,
beyond the region, to threaten to everyone.
The truth is that we rarely see transparency,
and not just because because it is see-thru,
but because with the human decency it exemplifies
we just don't realise, how much we take it for granted.
Until we realise; we read life through a glass darkly.
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