Lost In Dismay

Do you spend twenty percent of your time

  acquiring your beliefs

 

And eighty percent of your time

   in defense

 

Do you have blinders on

  about what you conceive

 

In fear of the critics

  pretense

 

Are your views narrow focused

  and then watered down

 

As the truth disavowed

  slips away

 

Is your memory tainted

  in times left to waste

 

As your efforts

  —retreat in dismay

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)

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