Questions

Medieval prison near Edinburgh, Scotland.

Questions

7/6/11

With these, people are free,

while answers often imprison us

thinking we're secure in 'knowing'

and so blinders are attached

no longer looking deeper within

the dynamics of everyday living

or lessons around personal history,

plus spoken, unspoken social contracts

we all assume agreement with

treated as unchallengeable solid foundation

on which political world depends,

labeling everything, everyone for control,

displaying confident bravado as proof

that we're right, they're wrong,

within this doubts are discredited,

also fear, only to persist

as underlying resistance toward pursuit

of goal deemed undeniably worthy,

until inquiry into 'gut feelings'

reveal 'set in stone' agenda

is based on misguided pretenses,

calculations, where possibilities suddenly change

for better if caught early,

otherwise great unwinding must occur

from centuries of distorted perspective

because leaders disdained pertinent questions.