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Mancry

Racoon eyes

stare mystified

while we conform to so called facts

actually based on tactless exaggerations

our fragile detente destroyed

by the purity of emotions

that burst through an earthen dam

burying our idyllic Sunday morning

in a torrent of contamination

the truth has become a by-product

of man's musguided attempt to control the nature of man

the truth is a paradox

the truth is akin to a prostitute propostitioning a preacher

the truth

once digested devolves into the waste that we expel

for somehwere buried deeply within the soul of man

is a mechanism of doubt

a doubt that sanitizes the truth

and transforms concepts into absolute fact

justice

impartiality

propriety

fairness

our history is littered with these and other implausible denials

how then can we be in defense of truth

when justice is defined by men in Gothic rooms

appointed by a populace

that befriends the truth

only when the shadow of doubt

falls upon an adversary

you are wrong

I am right

yet what is right when wrongs are committed

in defense of the truth

when lies are rechirstened as rebuttals

when the scales of justice are not meant to weigh sincerity

but rather

resemble the venomous vipers of vanity

under such torrential acidic rains

detente will falter

and the levee will break under the downpour of a factious society

and as racoon eyes

cry with the mascara of civility

we commit atrocities in defense of the truth

surely somewhere in this vast universe

there are a people who understood the concepts of truth

for what is truth if not inextricably linked to

love

and what is love if it cannot be diefined

by the truth of our soul's intent

yes, I do believe somewhere out there

are God's children

the Chosen Ones

while we sit in judgement as children of a lesser god

a demonic force that demands being right

over being righteous

so intent are we to be victorious that we ignore

the torrential downpour

as it falls on us all

thus we drown together

liked forever

by fact and fiction

by truth and perceptions of truth

by aquitttal and conviction

by the promise of life

and the certainty of death

all the while vainly attempting to form closing agruements

in the defense of a truth

we have long ago stained with the concepts of our doubts

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