Night Of Distant Echoes

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Anyone with barest modicum of morality, decency and justice cannot help but be deeply disturbed by the violations of human rights, and injustices, we see paraded across our T.V. screens and computer monitors, daily, as we watch the news from near and far: Government oppression; Terrorist atrocities, where innocents are heinously murdered - in the name of God no less; The brutalities of push-button warfare, where enemy foreigners die under the hand of technocrats using the most advanced weapons deficit spending can buy - weapons that, cleanly and conveniently, never require the killer to see the agony upon the face of his victims - or even know whether they were old or young; man, woman or child.

Even the United States of America, which has long claimed to be a virtuous proponent of human dignity - even the dignity of an enemy, where possible - has now earned an international reputation for the brutal torture and degradation of it's enemies in what are, essentially, concentration camps and secret prisons - akin to the infamous dungeons of medieval England - playgrounds for sadistic fiends and perverts - all state sanctioned, of course - which is supposed to make it upright and honorable...

Wrong.

I feel, at times, that I'm watching this evil and insane world from afar - and wishing I could retreat to some lofty and remote crag of a mountaintop, to hide, to be isolated from it, to await the time when God brings it all to an end - lest I be tempted to try to rectify the situation myself - which would only make me another perpetrator of evil...

...for no man's justice is ever perfect, is it?

And so, I will sit, atop my lonely crag...

...and wait.