by-standers

   
   
when spectators  
no longer speculate  
becoming participants    
in silence      
pretending  
not  
to know anything        
easier than        
translating        
conscience          
in ten-thousand  
languages        
non-cracks-the-deal      
uniformity  
in  
the box        
regurgitating sameness        
enlightenment, glory, trophy
finding god        
becoming god-like        
         
while the wiser slip       
quietly        
knowing too much  
and        
too much  
was more than        
we ever needed  
or  
asked