DANCE OF THE DAMNED

We are the damned. 
We dance now in place.
We are the damned
Who see evil’s face
We are the damned
Who turn away now
We are the damned
Who do not know how
We are the damned

“Dance of the Damned”
Joe Ivory Mattingly

FEW SAY IT SO WELL IN A BODY OF THOUGHT WITH SO MUCH SOUL
Jeanne on Guantanamo, Durbin, and Acts of Contrition [Body and Soul]

It is not easy to face up to the truth about what America is doing today and at the same time look toward a future in which Americans will be deeply ashamed of this part of our history. I try, and I don't always succeed. The temptation is either to cling to a vision of a perfect country and never acknowledge the evil, or to sneer that this horror is what America has become, and give up. We need a Virgil to guide us through hell without despair.

And The Heretik Joe Ivory Mattingly would add:

Twilight shines upon a strange land where a man must apologize for truth while another rules by lies.  The dark pit of Guantanamo is the abyss of the souls, both for those who must endure it, as well for those who see it.  What we cannot see for what it is and somehow rise above, surely we will drown in.   Truth  itself now takes the most brutal beating.  If we forget now the torture of the least, others most surely will strongly and later remember.

Comments

[Karen]

You've nailed another one, Heretik. That's exactly the insanity that we face today. Well done.