What can be determined with a glance,

may sometimes shock society.

Two people, two pictures, two countries,

and the world can only watch it unfold.

A friend once said that a pose

can easily be deceptive of moods.

I’ve since found myself pre-conceiving

all the faces I might see in my day.

Each one of us has an expression,

we contain only a mystique we unveil.

When I was told I am a gentle soul,

always, I wondered how that might

look in my grandeur, a visible pose.

We have a country feeling a turmoil

because two figures have been given

their unearned fifteen minutes.

We are a country at war.

We are misleading ourselves!