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Showing posts with label when avoiding the blame makes it go further and last longer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label when avoiding the blame makes it go further and last longer. Show all posts

Saturday, 2 November 2024

The Self Renewing Blame Game

When the rivers in the land of plenty
run red with death, and the language
that describes them has been poisoned,
made unfit for human use,
then generosity has turned for the worse,
it has been inverted. It is irredeemable,
unfit even for slightest recycling.

Who then will choose the only roles left
-the wounded who can't help themselves
as they live out their woundedness?
Or their false accusers and comforters
who wound others, and defend their actions
with bland rhetorical reassurances?

Who then will resist being the victim,
persecutor, and rescuer where to resist
we have to escape the circular arguments
in the new, Olympic level, blame games?     

Wednesday, 17 July 2019

There Is No Deception Like Self Deception

The fault lies
where the buck stops
and it should not stop
anywhere short of it.

But being a fault and lie
it wants to go anywhere
except where it will be
properly dealt with.