Taken, given:
friendships riven.
From shadow or shade,
it instantly puts paid
to hard-won clarities
and causes us to freeze
up with unearned righteousness;
it makes us less.
How much better to combat it.
We should take umbrage at it.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/umbrage/309013/
