ROSE COLORED GLASSES

ROSE COLORED GLASSES

Ricardo Antonio Garcia

Rose colored glasses.

How on one side

of the World things are rosy, and

on the other side

the Dutch Resistance is saving Jews.

Ignorance has blinders

while we struggle from becoming defeated

the cosmic legions swing in a hammock

and intertwine their webs.

Rose colored glasses.

How many

men will be outcast for their efforts

as millionaires lounge

sitting on the satchels of freshly printed bills.

Wealth equates to complacency

as the allures of life’s diamonds luster on

women will chase them endlessly

jumping into the Bentley drunk as a beggar.

The spine

of our legacies are not transported

on ethereal waves of cosmic dust

or Sun manifestations

on our consciousness, but

endeared

and meaningful moments of time

where tragic

and winning consequences are netted

and sorted for our understandings.

Here in ‘real time’ the journey persists

with its wealth of reasoning.

Rose colored glasses

do not afford

the realism and character of life.

Combating life each day

with courage

and amplitude we gain our fortitudes

and through its torrential rains

we become

more human through these interactions.

Searching for foreign Worlds

will not settle

the dust of our contemporary times.

Rose colored glasses, sees not

the Dutch Resistance

or men and women like them

for idealism

is conquered by these powers

fighting against

oppression and liberty for all.

Trump tales of dead elephants

is the News Heading

of our flawed characters.

The privacy

and gated communities

of the wealthy class

live not the temperaments

helping all of us achieve humanities honor.

Rose-colored glasses are for dreamers

as the villages

and families burn to the ground

they smoke away in their doldrums.

The take charge mentalities of our cares

are on the backs of the heroic.

The hidden stories we will never know

The saving of lives.

Rose colored glasses- are for fools.