casualty to the ignorance of submit.

tonight - too much social media.

too much implication of you're right, i'm wrong.

too much indifference to invest time in rebuttal.

if you don't want to see the truth, you won't.

if you don't want to understand the ignorance of coercion, you won't.

if you don't believe there are layers to your unknown, you will never accept the gift of truth,

tonight - the silencing of alarms. 

tonight - freedom from chains of assumed accountability. 

tonight,

lights out in the room of disallowed...

disarmed

this post - 

specific - 

intended. 

undeniably - unobtrusive.

words that speak from a shrine of good intention.

words that speak to humble - 

humility.

words that speak from a platform of compassion -

across the silence of a room of doubt...

it seems -

sometimes -

the closer we become to who we are, 

the further away we move from our comfort zone.

  

suddenly the definition - 

the boundaries -

the allowed,

becomes muted. 

uncertainty colored gray replaces the black and white contrast.

is -

becomes could,

should gets consumed by can't.

  

as we search for answers to questions we have not the courage to ask, 

our serenity disappears -

lost in the chaos of despair...

these words -
surreptitiously culled from dissertations of faith -
sermons of solidarity.
and yet i wonder if you hear them through the discord of your lamentations.

prayers - i pray.
application for license to disarm.
all the while -
you remain isolated -
entombed within a vault of disbelief.
unable to see over walls built to disallow insurgence of attack -
denigration of emotional stability -

that in effect,
have become prisons
of self-imposed
indifference...