Defective view from above all

Defective View From Above All

From high above, they claim it’s clear,

A softened world, untouched by fear,

Through tinted glass of gentle shade,

They watch a lie so neatly made.

Rose coloured sight, a painted grace,

No cracks allowed, no truth to face,

They smooth the edge of what is real,

And hide the wounds they will not feel.

Below, the ground begins to shake,

A quiet shift they will not take,

For comfort blinds the sharpest eye,

And wraps the truth in sweetened lie.

They speak of peace, of steady hands,

While fault lines split beneath the lands,

A fragile calm, too thin, too wide,

A breaking point they push aside.

Their vision floats, it does not fall,

It never hears the warning call,

For distance breeds a safer view,

Where nothing harsh can filter through.

But down below, the signs are loud,

A growing dark beneath the crowd,

A tension stretched to snapping thread,

A future hanging, barely held.

Still they adjust their softened lens,

Rewrite the now, pretend it bends,

Dismiss the cracks, ignore the strain,

And dress collapse as passing rain.

The higher they rise, the less they see,

The cost, the truth, reality,

For height creates a false control,

While blind spots swallow up the whole.

And when the fall begins to land,

It will not pause for quiet plan,

No filtered light, no softened tone,

Just truth, and all that has been sown.

So keep your view, your coloured disguise,

Your distant calm, your altered skies,

But know beneath that gentle hue,

The fall is coming into view.

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