Similarity....Of Circumstance Poem by James B. Earley

It's all about choices
…Amidst the rhetoric of why…
Circumstance…the system
….Omnipresent…the lie

Analyzing sheer politics
‘Tis a valid complaint
..Hillary...branded a liar
For God's sakes…who ain't

It all…comes down to choices
….When questing…for truth
The belligerent…the bellicose
….Is bigoted….uncouth

The Judgment at Nuremberg…
Forgotten truth…on the shelf
A nagging………proposition
…History resurrecting….itself

Indeed…it's all about choices
….Denigrating….the why
Insidious proliferations
…Omnipresent…the lie


Author's Note:
'First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.'
~Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) was a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.