Distrust
Distrust names the game
Leaders betray us for gain
Our demise and pain
Once you are betrayed
You are never quite the same
Trust, a fatal aim
To overcome it
Compassion must take the reins
As empathy plays
But
Never trust Mandarins
Their appetites unsated
Don’t care about us
At all, only wealth
Power and their own status
The elite, the ‘cream’
Trust and forgive friends
Not the weaselly mandarins
Fast-tracking our end
–LE – 1/10/26
Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
–Friedrich Nietzsche
CynOp 
5 responses to “Distrust”
It’s sad, but the vast majority of those in power are only interested in power and money, not we the people. If there is some sort of existence when we die, maybe they’ll pay then. Karma is a bitch, I’ve heard.
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Agreed, but I’m not convinced of anything after death, including Karma… even though the rest of life on earth and the universe seem to be consistently revolving in cycles, seldom (if ever) a true ending, just a sometimes gap and a new beginning or continuation (poles in the dance of life/death)… I guess we’ll find out when age and time demand our dues…; -)
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When we die, it may just be like turning off a light switch…click, our mind is dead with the body. I’d like to think there may be more, though.
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So would most, I think. That’s a subject that we could get very philosophical about. I’ve come to think that life and death are poles of the process, ‘the cycle of life and death’… Can’t have one without the other. Any other states or planes of existence have yet to be proven, at least for me. But I’m not saying they don’t exist, nor that the ideas I hold are any better than anyone else’s. So, to each his or her own … I guess we’ll find out when we get there…; -)
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Or not, if it’s like a light switch. Nothing of you left to find out.
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