Introduction To Folly
Lost in time, as though it were new
trapped by relentless turmoil
from yesterday's frailties
words are spoken, no one hears
panic is rendered on a head tilting down
waiting for the bloody ax of judgment
wielded by complaining hands
that have crawled with fat bellies chasing idols
on lies of persecution whispered to one another
in a world that is no further than the length of their arm
described to them in a book of their own promises
written by them, for them
and all whose name is not listed
are cursed by the authors
who sit as judges in a make-believe trial
where innocence fights insanity
and sanity is hung by its neck until dead
by emotions that are given authority
by those who profit from a lie
In the depth of their eyes
lay the cold smoldering furnaces of yesterday
waiting to be used by blind obedience
trying to resolve their own misery
on burned bones of those they think unworthy
the head tilts, the ax blade falls
freedom dies and thirty pieces of silver
roll across the floor of history
1/31/18
Copyright © Frederic Parker | Year Posted 2018
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