Dangerous Denial

Denial gets you nowhere.

When there's a problem, face it.

If it's a major challenge,

Open your mind and embrace it.

 

The trouble is a problem

Won't go away on its own.

Don't wait until

The flower is overblown.

 

If a situation

Affects our national security,

Can a solution wait

For some remote futurity?

 

Bury your head in the sand

If your mind is closed.

But if you do, remember:

Your rear will be exposed.

 

How to solve a problem

When our leaders drub

Twaddle into our heads?

Ah, that's the rub!

 

How to get to the bottom

Of what is happening around us

Is problematic when

Efforts are made to confound us.

 

What is clear to some,

To others is quite blurry.

Suspicions arise when something

Is covered up in a scurry.

 

To know or not to know?

Is that the question that taunts us?

Why didn't we stop it?

Will be the question that haunts us.

 

(3-30-17) By Bob B