Surface Tensions

Surface Tensions © Ben Burton 6-11-2015 Surrounding yourself with court jesters Will not elevate your IQ Engaging no one but supporters Does little to broaden your view Stay leery the lib'ral dimension Which seeps like an incessant tide Unconquered, though captured red-handed Insouciance their constant disguise As sycophants silhouette secrets From verity's solar-hot gaze The moral facades of the wicked Have stingers submerged in bouquets Your hearth begs a vigilant watchman To foil any plot to invade But sentries are naught without power Of armaments meant to dissuade A surface of elegant beauty May yield but a squid, quid pro quo So hitch not your raft to a bauble But anchor it deep in the soul