At the end of the day I am only a diplomat

Questions and rage may be flung haphazardly
while people are compelled to feign understanding & content

The timeless enemy pairs: good & evil, right & wrong, peace & war
may continue the struggle for domination

The world may continue its descent into unmitigated disillusion
and all knowns reversed into unknowns-

But at the end of the day I am only a diplomat. One who tries
to draw lines & divide the world's happiness into 2 neat piles
- one designated to each side.

Though insanity erupts amond men and corruption becomes
a widely held and widely defended character;

Though good people may do bad & beautiful people may act repulsive;
Though a small piece of myself is always reserved for self-doubt

At the end of the day I am only a diplomat. Embarking on
a journey to bring an evasive peace to the hands of angry citizens

At the end of the day I am only a diplomat - too naive
to accept the diligence of belligerence

Too tenacious to forfeit even the slightest victory
and too diplomatic to admit that diplomacy is only a game

played by people who value the image of pluralistic content
and general agreeability.