Extremity: Looking On

Probing the edge
Of what I can do,
Listening to the news
And wondering who’s who,

How do we tell,
What are the right causes
And which players
Are speaking the truth?

From so far away
It’s difficult to see,
What is really happening
So remotely,

Looking on from here
It’s so easy to do so
So passively,
Tapping into the audio-visual stream,

Wondering where we are really going
As opposed to the official version,
Wars and conflicts and politics,
It’s enough to make one sick!

And yet, it’s peaceful here
At least for now
And in this locality
But for how long will this be the reality?

Does this make for
A complacent mentality
Leading to
Even more fatalities?

What can we
Really prevent?
Or can we only look backwards
After the events?