they sit and conversate
as though they had stood
where those they discuss stood,
imaging rhetoric about others
without logic,
appearing illiterate to
the battles waged
in trenches of various kinds,
without experience first hand,
without facts and knowledge,
damage is done and others
pay the price for ignorance,
there is more than the simple
appearance of a single layer,
there are complexities that
remain beyond the initially seen,
where seeking attention for self
is not the goal
giving for others is the desire,
yet in the cluster around
a square table judgment
is launched and other critiques
given in response are scolded
and condemned,
there is not reciprocity
just blind perception.
