Blindfolds Are Complimentary

Defending against the hits

Who has any real-time for this?

From the aggressors who blubber about niceties,

comes spiteful splattering subtleties.

mud thrown over the walled city of Notifications,

to distract plausible argument with great ironic howls of “fallacy.”

Thus ends the great claims of integrity, from those who,

at the push of a button,

hashtag their “internet solidarity.”

Intoxicating red bubbles demand you click

and then engage with their foul spit.

To the odorous sentiment of superiority

there is little antidote to its insanity

Reasoned argument is no guarantee

and qualifications have zero sway in it,

So goes the condemnation of your disagreement

Only policy sellers; club dwellers with paid membership are “free.”

Blindfolds are complimentary.

Comments of support a necessity.

Popularity a commodity;

Victims to pounce on are compulsory.

Yet…

truth, although reduced in its capacity,

and so forced into a quiet solemnity,

will have its ideological chains eroded by reality.

Like the wax of a burning candle, Light will dissolve each man-made chain into obscurity.

(RL2016)

Rod Lampard