About Face

Indicators of the Age,
Lingering as observations, persist,
Even while busy with the day to
Day, from one month to the next,
Year in and year out.

These observations, their
Presence not fading into absence,
Affect the mindset, causing the loss
Of objectivity, enhancing cultural

Context--the overarching rational
Sensitivities that take precedence,
Hyperbolically to the point of
Obsessiveness.

These sensitivities possess an
Outlook that progresses a narrative
That has an end that seems further
Away than the beginning near,
That has exhaustive insight, has an
Ancestral vision as encountered by
The physignomic countenance
Of the storyteller.