At Any Cost

Symptomatic folly, the tail now wags the dog Whose bark, it whimper’s drolly, all teeth removed and gone Reacting, never acting, new victims every day All courage has retracted, —the future in harms way Jailed speech unto the warden, whose words may not contend Our patriotic burden, its truth we must defend With cowards grabbing power, a swamp that we must cross Lies from ivory towers, —to fell at any cost (Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)