Even the Buddha Acknowledged the Fire / New Age Quack Quack

by Dan Vera

I have to hear you speak honestly first.
I have to know you understand.
I have to know you're fluent in language we don't hear any more.
I have to know you understand what is happening,
what has happened,
what continues to bleed us all of life in these times.
That you know we are down the rabbithole,
That Grendel and Moloch are running amuck across the land.

When I know we are both speaking of the same fire,
Then we can speak of ways of becoming something saner under the sun.

But do not give the salve before you
acknowledge the wound or see the extent of the injuries.
Do not apply the ointment to the unafflicted areas,
the first world seems to always make it into triage.
Do not charge the poor a king's ransom for your mercies.
The rich are not dying from the worst of these horrors.


© 2002 - Dan Vera

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