Fear ain’t true

*The setting at the water’s edge… the spark of the first line of this piece, hit as I stood here (grand* *risings).*

Because fear ain’t true –
at the root of it –
is you.

One plus one
equals two.

That which we cower
from lives within –
we have to resolve
to tell truths
to self
and offer
lies no quarter…
on this battlefield
of war –
the duality
good versus evil
amid
the business
or serving the sentence
of doing life…
on Earth.

our souls
should be
worth more –
we should be…
fighting for right
rather than hiding
in the trenches
hoping for benedictions
from the crooked
and ill-begotten

Ay… Earth is so…
Scotty beam me
outta here!

It ain’t no intelligent life
around these parts…

and even less humanity
as we refuse to embrace our
commonality.

Words tendered to the denizens
of Earth –
all we got is us.