Storms

Storms

Mayhem thunders

through our lives

like a hurricane

terrible in its violence

but temporary.

Confusion and ignorance

are more insidious

They hide the truth

in our souls

like a thick fog

lifting only

after the winds

of change and knowing

wash it away.

Confusion, ignorance

and mayhem

are tied together

in that it often takes

the storm that is mayhem

to clear away the fog that

is confusion and ignorance

and the storm often grows

out of the fog bringing its

own demise.

Peace is mans natural state

so common in our lives

that we often

hardly notice the calm

focused as we often are

looking for storm clouds

on the horizon.

It is the bane

of our civilization

that our institutions

and entertainment

have become instruments

of the oppressive

endlessly trying fool

us into believing

we should fear

our brother and sister humans

Remember, my friends

Governments that oppress

the societies they serve

are themselves storms

and like all mayhem

cannot long last.

Dewey Dirks