Divergence

No divesture of this, the soul's remind
the will of intervention supplements 
with watching's wrest, the citizenry not bind
to sameness value, while the truth is blind!

I then must separate from that ensuing kind
that regulate on vestige, inheritance assigned,
my courage has one merit, yet options are sublime
to change the course of wrongness, others leave so behind!

It is this costly virtue, no gain, no riches mined
but everlasting oneness, with those whose crowns were lined
with scars from no assuming goodness was just consigned
to those who blandish glory from past renowned refined!

It is the price of freedom, continuous ~ divine
that scourges not resumption, but "freshens" from confined!


"Sentenced but not silenced"  Mandela, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King
James Bevel.  (Gandhi and Jesus) Civil Rights Movers!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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