I hear the drizzle

"so you see, I have come to doubt
all that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
the only truth I know is you"

I was listening to music

my iPod

That verse
of that song
repeated itself
over and over

in my mind

it resonated
with what has been sitting deep in me
bothering me
but just out of reach
a feeling of unease
distracting
but not strong enough to give itself a name

until now.

I look around me, today

and everything I once believed
about who we are
and how we live
and what we did to become who and what we are
seems to have been rendered untrue

The system is corrupt
there is a disconnect between
those who rule
and are ruled
but we are salved with hyperbole
we go back to sleep

and the slinkers, slink
obscene things done in our name
TO our name
but the money flows
and the contracts are let
and people die
in poverty and disease
because we are afraid someone will reach in our pocket.

Somehow, this all seems so wrong to me
The high ideals have been prostituted
in the name of free markets and ungodly profit
I got mine
you get yours
tough, if you can't find it.

Gordon Briggs died in the spring of '66
shot by a sniper
whatever else might have been
I don't think this is what he died for.

"and so i have come to doubt
all that i once held as true
i stand alone without beliefs
the only truth i know is you"

You.

Ndinombethe.

1st and last - lyrics from Kathy's Song, Simon&Garfunkel.