Distrust (edit2, title chg)

[Achebe]

@everyone - Does the message still get through without the fourth line?  It seems to me that without some hint at context it fails to bite, like the famous Meiji/Showa

The association was obvious, but doesn't make for interesting  poetry.
Edited, it is less didactic, but still a statement of boring  opinion or prejudice. The old show / tell tgibg.