Binocular View



I was told I would find you here.
High ontop of this hill.
Claiming to pray and meditate.
With a doing to escape away,
From all the confusion...
Below that takes place.
And here I find you,
Holding binoculars close to your face.
What do you view?
That has you so curious?

'Here.
Take a look.'

Where?

'Down and over there.
Tell me...
What do you see?'

Nothing unusual.
Just a bunch of folks.
Dancing in celebration joyfully.

'Just a few short weeks ago,
I saw them planting weapons and bombs.
I suspect timely set.
To then fence themselves in.
With signs that read, Do Not Trespass.
And today more of them,
Along with children, their friends...
Family members and neighbors.
Caring gas masks.
As if prepared to practice,
A massive Civil unrest.
I think that to be unusual.
What is it do you guess,
They maybe up to?'

Time bombs to plant them,
Is crazy enough.
What sense does that make?
When ultimately they harm themselves!
Let's go and tell them,
How stupid they are.

'For what purpose would be the reason?
When we are probably the ones,
They choose to distance themselves...
Far away and from.'

To prove a doing of what?

'A power to self destruction.
And giving up entitlements,
They believe a diverse democracy...
Has intentionally diminished,
Their quality of of life to destruct.'

But...
Aren't they the ones,
Manifesting to infest their own demise?

'You go ahead and try to tell them that.
And...
I'm willing to bet,
You will find them...
Limited and consciousness.
To declare you the enemy,
Envious and jealous...
Of their way of life you despise.'

I don't believe people these days,
Have been made to be that crazed.

'Oh yeah?
Look closely at the adults,
In their super hero costumes.
And the children chasing each other,
With guns to pretend...
The killing of one another.'

And I was made to believe,
You came to this place...
Just to meditate and pray.

'I did.
Until God suggested,
I bring along binoculars.
To widen and broaden...
My peaceful point of view.
You can hand them back to me!'

I'm still disbelieving,
It was God that recommended...
You buy and bring binoculars,
To focus on a man-made destruction.
That has no benefit in its production.
Since this to witness,
Eliminates any progress to think it made.

'Don't be judgemental.
Those faithful and conscious,
Know God works in mysterious ways.'

You won't believe this.
But now the kids are being issued,
Faked hand grenades.

'How do you know them to be faked?
Was the insurrection of our Capital,
Child's play?'





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Submitted by lpahtillah on December 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXXBCDEDEF AX XGG HXG XXIXXJXKXFXHXE JXXLJX CMLX N CXGXX NMO XXIJFGFO PX XXXQXQ XDB XRKCEG XRKCCFX HFP XXX XHB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,505
Words 553
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 10, 2, 3, 3, 14, 6, 4, 1, 5, 3, 8, 2, 6, 3, 6, 7, 3, 3, 3

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