Conventional Wisdom

Conventional wisdom means: Compliments Smiles Artificial flowers Restraint and order It’s like an English garden Trimmed and accurate Where nature is masked And curves are beaten It’s like an artificial flavour Disguising the sweetness Of the fruit To constrain, to restrain To hide, to abstain Conventional wisdom is Quiet and nice Polished and wise Yet sometimes like volcanic Magma the feelings burst Out unconventionally Proclaiming my spirit my Pain my laughter my Essence – unconventional And wild – like The howling wind The ocean storm where Everything is thrown aside And gets very messy And not very quiet and wise like An English Garden