Deception seems to be the thing

When reality of blindness sinks in

And so many souls make pretenses

Becoming other beings, other tenses



For the reality of appearance does lack

So folks can be anything and then attack

Completely anonymously and oblivious

Of their own realities lived so serious



Sorting out real intellect from self-creation

Is a task involving many twists and striations

As these marks mutiply during new exchanges

Patience and fortitude tend to lessen strangeness 



As reality then sinks in - a self-perception string

Was based on partial exchanges without ring

And so it is then time to re-evaluate and re-assess

Without being sucked in, with part of mind stressed



- Tristram



Christopher W. Thomas

7:45am Sat. March 14th, 1998