What depraved state
has society reached
when our understanding of the world
is the adult equivalent
of playground ‘goodies’ and ‘baddies’?

What a wonderfully
certain moral high ground
we can take when we adopt the position
of the good guys and
cast ‘the others’ in shadows.

When the most very basic
of nuanced understandings
is lost, cannot be countenanced…
and the desire, or will, to look deeper-
all but obliterated by repeated partiality?