WATCHERS OF THE GLOWING SCREEN
“While you here do snoring lie
open-eyed conspiracy
his time doth take’
Shakespeare, Tempest
Watchers of the glowing screen
Fellow cave dwellers unite
A look at the shadows
We took as real
The curtain went up
The brutal matinee
8:47 AM
9/11/01
When all that was normal
Turned violently upside down
Fear spread over the earth
Through our veins
Clouded our thoughts
Blinded our vision
The planes crashed
The buildings vaporized
So many died
Horrid events
Racing along
Each more terrifying than
The last
We were dizzy with dread
Numbed by horror and sadness
Cataclysmic loss
Threats of more to come
Chaos reigned!
Adrift and flailing
Urgently we needed safety
Help
Answers
Rapidly we bonded to
TV, Radio, Newspapers
Desperate for explanation
In our days of want
Our ‘wondrous’ media spoke
WITH ONE VOICE
(as they still do)
In our days of dread
Our ‘esteemed’ White House
Welded our thoughts
The marvelous organs of National Intelligence
Their media mouthpieces
Quickly told from whence
The enemy came
Whom we could blame
Who we would kill
All we knew came from puppeteers
Playing their marionettes
Across the screen
Of our weakness
The Great White House
Told us what it wanted us to know
The Authorized Script
We would act
When they pulled the strings
And jump when they said-JUMP
Through flaming hoops
Of their own making
Powerful is the weld
That binds most
To the Script
You may well bristle
To hear
The actual facts of the attacks
Are NOT
what has been told/sold
We saw
Only parts
We hear
Only
Authorized narrative
From these parts
The Ringmasters
Direct our fear
Forged our rage
Powerful is the weld
That binds most
To the Script
but
Hear
The facts of the attacks
Are NOT
Those that have been sold.
Just
as painfully
We learn
Much of what
Is sold as
White House fact
Is truly costly hoax
That furthers profits’ aims,
So too
We learn
The details
of that bloody day
Are filled with
Evidence
Which points
Not at 19 Arabs
But military exercise
Directed from within
.
‘seek, and ye shall find’
Donald Bellinger 9/24/04 all rights reserved
