Reason or treason

Reason is a fickle tool

Beware we use it as a rule…

As men of reason we set out,

To reason what it’s all about.

Priding ourselves we take great care,

Turning things over, here and there

Dotting the I’s and crossing the Tees

Confirming conjectures that put us at ease

But let time pass, take a step back

Our truths and convictions buckle and crack.

Under reasonable agreements

We cunningly hide

The thoughts and actions of our darker side.

Readily we reason it’s perfectly all right

For conflict, for murder, to steal and to fight

In the name of Religion, Nation or Tribe

Spreading  hatred and conflict that eat us alive.

Righteously we reason our homicidal roles

Wrap them in agreements and swallow them whole

We use reasoning to camouflage and justify

The contradictions and the reckonings

From which we fly

For reason's always quick to rally 

And cloak our Simeon ways

Slamming shut the gates of perception

Excusing the carnage littering our days.