mystery confusion

armchair generals
and savants from
various fields
litter the tv
landscape saying
have food for 3
days and maybe
just maybe we
wonder why -

more, or
at least i,
personally,
wonder why.
vapor trails
drop from the
sky, in a
grid pattern.

is the war 'real'
to the masses or
is it just like
waiting for the
next episode of
this or that
laugh track
enabled
sit-
com

[relaxed
realized]

or would they,
as some have said,
just rather not think
about it - just not worry
about it because most likely
it won't affect us here at home
they think like all other wars and
we all do pray for it - peace - but at
what cost?

dollar and yen pennies and
sense to see beyond the
paper number figure sum
beyond within without
the american dream

and what if, as a poet, you
cannot sit idly by and not
wonder when it will beg-
in.
in-
side ...
s
l
i
d
e ...
like it's still in style
surprise corners cutting
costs - collateral damage
a horrid term ...

ellipsis to signify
periods of confusion
states of misconception-
itis. it is a mystery
confusion sickness for-
getting how and why and
just feeling the Love
wax cold, as in freeze
and cease to be as men
and women look to save
their own souls in their
own ways - forgetting
unity and the true power
of faith - forgetting
that when you see the
sky is red you know the
hour approacheth and the
storm cometh upon the
plan-
et
it
in-
deed
arrives
like a thief
in the night with
the goodman of the
house watching and
seeing the drops begin
to add up finally after
all this time.

tIMe was when we couldn't
fathom the end or the new
beginning because it was
so far off and we still
had so far to go to
get where we are
now in space &
time - unwrapped,
enrapt,
perverse,
unaware and
ready for signs
and wonders (from
anyone) to save the
earth as we now know
it - only maybe a little
better.

cloak of darkness falls and
time stalled once and now
it propels forward toward
it all finally being known

as the mystery of confusion
falls upon some others (with
aid of the Holy Spirit and the
Word) are able to see through
the wafer thin 'truman show'
existence of consumerism to
the signs of the times and
that one after another
they come true - O
Damascus, O babylon
of confusion do you
see your destiny
written by others
in the timeline who
were able to see His will?

armchair generals prepare the way
for the new world order - yes, with
ominous orwellian overtones deeply
embedded. listen, those that have
ears to hear let them hear here.