The clouds promise rain
but deliver tear gas
it blurs the vision
but clears the mind
and shines a light
on how tiny little lies
grow over time
into huge bedazzling untruths
until soon people believe:
that war is the new peace
and control, the new freedom
that looking to the past is the new future
and closed minds, the new enlightenment
It takes a baton in uniform
nails on skulls
bullying and bullets
to expose the truth:
that indifference is the villain
benign acceptance, a malignancy
willful ignorance, the enemy
and corruption, the traitor
It takes children to teach us how to adult.
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