Historical Distortion

History is distorted obscured allured out of focus. Blanks left. Missing pieces of fragments. Past conspired. Planning plots schemes. In poured over parchments. Stitched together. Academic political reconstructions. Which will join. We accept. With calculated. Grudgingly heeded argumentative ploy debate. Realism has conceit deception puzzling seams. Memory lost of countless dreams leaves gaping gaps. Misconceptions. In recorded construed reality. History is distorted obscured blurred out of focus. By willful intrigues shrouded in dim dusty past. Distortion concealment. In ultra-deceiving present. Gaze upon, face of Sphinx is not, to gaze upon, created artistic reality. Sphinx timelessly crouching in scorching sands. What happened to conceived artistic conception? Circumstances conspired, to change, represented, real appearance. Turkish cannon balls aimed in practice, have stripped, mythically blown clean off. Moustache depicted on you? What enigma is thus shorn from original hair lined lip. Beneath circumstance must change. Meaning applied to pre-historic time capsule. Beneath outstretching hand of paw. Copyright © Terence George Craddock Written in July 1989 on the 20&22.7.1989.