Letter to a One-Time Friend

A victim of the times

                                                       

All these years, I thought I knew who you were.

Yes, we had our differences, to be sure,

 

but overall, I thought we got along okay.

But reading your comments, and the way

 

you defend the indefensible, makes me realize

whatever we had in common is long gone--you get a rise

 

out of me for the crazy things you now believe.

I don't understand what happened to you, cannot conceive

 

of your far right wing philosophy--I used to think somewhere

inside you, was compassion, I used to think you'd care

 

about the innocent victims of gun violence, for example, but I was wrong,

any sense of a compassionate, caring person is gone,

 

replaced by a hard-line, rigid ideology,

one whose logic, try as I might, I just can't see.

 

It's a sad fact of these polarizing times, but it's the new normal,

I guess, that we can't find common ground, and our friendship will fall.

Reviews

[marcus]

ideological differences ... so often come between us.
I liked this Michael!

[Michael Stevens]

Thank you much, Marcus!