Surviving Faith And Fear

The past is always stretched between faith and fear
as we recollect it, where the faith of those in power
came from their belief in having the means
of tipping the balance of probabilities
in favour of old rhetorical answers.

The fear of the weak was that they could not argue
their way out the rhetoric that left them so many ideas
that the rhetoric denied them the expression of.

Whether you are on the side of power,
or the side of weakness, I wish you endurance,
and endurance for those you are opposed to,
that we may each endure one another better.   

As Diferent Wars Saturate The News

I cannot even end the old battles
that go on within me,
where after many decades
I now know who lied,
and what they covered up, 
but now it is too late for me
for me to know why they lied,
and what else they were hiding,
beneath what they were covering up.

Roll on the selective amnesia
where I only remember what I need to,
and forget what I now don't need to know,
and most of all, to KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.