Silken soft

I close my eyes
and my mind falls away...
I swirl around an abyss;
a deep black darkness
envelops me
I lie suspended
between life and something else
and the cord that
I hang from-
that silken soft cord-
is about to give way

words are no longer easy

words no longer are easy
and I struggle;
everything I write...
smudges of black ink
on pure white;
a terrible fatigue
consumes me...
as if meaning has
somehow been lost;
as if nothing
could mean anything
anymore;
as if nothing
could be more futile...

Lebanon and terror in air...

So what role has the media really played in the present middle east conflict? Is it really that of a neutral, objective observer, reporting on the facts and providing its viewers/listeners/readers with the facts and nothing but the facts? Is neutral reporting even possible?

Anyway, this whole thing has been hugely depressing...I cant really bring myself to think about it...and as if things weren't already bad enough you had the alleged 'air terror plot'...is this ever going to end?