An ancient lie
controls the world,
its flag unfurled
before the eye:
that might is right;
the mystery
of history
is that what light
the meagre flame
of truth reveals,
the winner steals
in a rigged game
won by a cheat,
claimed before birth,
so that true worth
seems like deceit.
06 MAY 2017
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