Epistles from the New Fade

those who see what few others do
are called visionaries

and those who are able to define
what is really going on

are usually not to be believed
especially by those they contradict

the New Fade is peculiar
in that it suggests

a time in which notions change
at both an alarming rate

and at a glacial pace
so that it's difficult to know

what's really going on,
even though it seems

everyone is commenting
on everything all the time

in every era
there are those

who seem to grasp
what's really going on

and for future generations
they leave notes behind

those readers are left
with the odd sensation

and knowledge that what they read
with such prescience then

was not generally understood
at the time

and so these little time-bombs
are curious anachronisms indeed

in whatever time
they exist