RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: ON TYRANNY
Human Contact
In the days and nights of isolation
Disconnected from our fellow beings
We lose all sense of our surroundings
Absorbed by our electronic screens
In the silence before the coming storm
We need to gaze into human eyes
To gauge the content of our neighbors
In times of trouble who will rise?
Who has rage and looks away?
Who engages to spread lies?
Who tests the limits of your patience?
Who wears a flag disguise?
You may be sure it cannot happen
Not in this time and place
But if the spark becomes a flame
Best be prepared just in case
(Inspired by Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny)
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