Message from TPTB on the Colbert report through Caroline Kennedy??

First off, I usually don't put too much stock into stuff like this but this particular segment on Colbert's show tonight made me take notice because his guest was a Kennedy.

So tonight, Caroline Kennedy was the guest on The Colbert Report, talking about her new book of poetry. Part way through the interview, Colbert mentioned that he was going to read two poems with her, one he didn't like and one he did. He decided to start with the one 'he didn't like'. The poem was "Leap Before You Look" by W. H. Auden. Here is the poem.

Leap Before You Look

The sense of danger must not disappear:
The way is certainly both short and steep,
However gradual it looks from here;
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Tough-minded men get mushy in their sleep
And break the by-laws any fool can keep;
It is not the convention but the fear
That has a tendency to disappear.

The worried efforts of the busy heap,
The dirt, the imprecision, and the beer
Produce a few samrt wisecracke every year;
Laugh if you can, but you will have to leap.

The clothes that are considered right to wear
Will not be either sensible or cheap,
So long as we consent to live like sheep
And never mention those who disappear.

Much can be said for social savior-faire,
Bu to rejoice when no one else is there
Is even harder than it is to weep;
No one is watching, but you have to leap.

A solitude ten thousand fathoms deep
Sustains the bed on which we lie, my dear:
Although I love you, you will have to leap;
Our dream of safety has to disappear.

-- W. H. Auden


Now maybe I'm making something out of nothing, but it does't take an English major to draw some scary conclusions from this poem and it's pretty coincidental the way he introduced it and it's contents. Talk of "sheep" and "safety" and the last four lines could be referring to a bunker. So what do you guys think, am I making something out of nothing or was this a message.....

Surprised no one else has replied to this.
Great find, thanks for scribing it.
I have to agree with you, there are many interesting metaphors in this poem

Especially considering that a Kennedy, a family member of a great man who was murdered for his logical views; wants this to be aired.

This makes me want to do some research on the poem's author, if for no other reason than the fact that I liked the poem itself.

S+F

I also enjoyed the poem, and the imagery that brings forth, we are in a dream we are in a nightmare tailor made to satisfy every desire, real or invented, all we own we owe, beauty really is in the mind of the overlord, we are worse than cattle we eat were we crap, and are the only species to spit at the sky and not expect it to return and haunt us...

sometimes an image says more than a thousand words, but in some cases a metaphor is worth a million spoken words!

this could very well be a message as you claim OP, good find!