blind faith

There's nothing left
to say
because as cliche as
it may sound
the cliches have
said it better
than I ever could.

For example
someone once said
"an eye for an eye
leaves the whole world
blind"
and how the fuck
could i say that better?
or even add to it
except to say
"hell yeah"
because it's so
damn true

It's too late though
and we're all
blind
walking into walls
piecing together
our other
senses
so convincingly
that we don't
recognize
our broken noses
and crooked paths.

How else can you
explain
so many people
standing by
as innocent people
of every
color
creed
gender
and age
are raped
killed
blown apart
and buried in
mass graves
called
Manhattan
New Orleans
Bagdhad or
Afghanistan?

How else can
we
explain
our lack of outrage
as an adminisration
who plays a hand
of 2500 dead innocents
to
strip billions more of
the
right to say...
well anything really...
and then somehow
the right
of a 16-year-old in
South Dakota to
abort
her own
brother or sister
from her womb so
that even if her
rapist father gets
locked up for life
the trauma
of carrying the result to term
will live in her
blood
in another
until that son turns
18
and gets sent to
WWIII

Another cliche
that is only a
cliche
because it looms so
impendingly
over our broken
world
and we are so
blind
that we still
cannot see it
but we can
hear
it in the distance
behind the words of men
telling us
that if men can
marry other men
than the
terrorists
win
and I can't say shit
about it
because my phones
are tapped
so instead I
weep
openly
on the T
over the morning
paper
and I can't see anymore
but I think
I hear the
baby
next to me
whimper
in agreement.