China Absolved

We live a life of ambiguity. We sat, "Value for life", yet death abounds. Our leaders visit lands of polity painful to all, yet make most benign sounds of friendship and we shuck and jive a bit, but convince ourselves that profitable mutual ends can lead to a lamp lit once to freedom, but now hardly able to be seen in the smog of industry and sweat of workers without any choice. Men and women that are taken away to lonely deaths if they hazard a voice in the mildest kinds of criticism. Our guilt lost in late show witticism.