Like Refugees Escaping

Three hundred years ago

religious zealots wanted to kill my family

they escaped from Montauban, France

on the River Tarn

Six years ago

I returned

a lost son of Montauban

and I walked along the Tarn

and gathered stones

skipping them across the surface

like refugees escaping

This is Not Normal

Just remember
if anyone should try to convince you otherwise
go with the obvious meaning
what you see with your own eyes

This is not normal
This is not good
This is not acceptable
This is not a witchhunt
This is not the White Man's Persecution

This is a man who behaves obviously, overtly bad
publicly
who by all evidence
is psychotically narcissistic and
devoid of morality or decency

This is just what it seems like

A bad man
(probably damaged by a privileged, dysfunctional upbringing)
who got in trouble
because of his own actions
and is being brought down
by justice officers from across the political spectrum
based upon evidence from and testimony of
his own allies and former allies
conservatives all

History will record it just that way
because that is what has happened

Don't believe anyone who even hints otherwise
The data in the real world doesn't support it
 

He Was Lost

He was lost
in a late summer blizzard
and all the green
had turned to white
and all the darkness
was kept
as a balancing scale
neither too much
nor too little

Two Square Inches

I found two square inches

in the middle of a medium-sized woods

in the middle of a fairly large city

and those two square inches contained

more beauty and

more information and

more details to explore

than I could have possibly imagined

or have time to finish examining

And then

I turned around and found

another two square inches

that was filled with

infinity

and I wondered what hope

I could possibly have to ever

understand and comprehend

more than

two square inches

And so

I embraced grace

rather than understanding