Pill Colorless

It’s a common enough thing
To say, almost a cliché—

People only see what they
Want to see. That’s a mistake.

People only see what they
Have to see, what they’ve been made

To see. Ask them. Go ahead.
Ask a few every day—

Do you want to keep seeing
This, what you’re seeing, always?

You know what they’ll say, but you,
They, don’t know how to escape.

The ones conspiracy crazed
Are fully thrashing, flailing

To try to see something new,
Something true. They’re just failing.