with deep historical amnesia
criminal lunacy follows the convention
of misinformation
the privileged custodians of history
dictate our reality
the fourth world of half truths

annihilated by incapacitating silence
the hide and seek of grief and fear in the land of plenty
vanishing half a nation with a savage appetite for destruction

these are the shadowlands the mindstorms and ghost wars
these are the phragmites of the soul fueled by salt and sweat and blood