Unbridled Change

These days of changing values can be hard: What once was just, today's considered wrong. Some things encouraged now at one time jarred, Abandoned now are values once held long. Unquestioned rules and customs are eschewed, And standards jettisoned yet not replaced. What once was fixed has now become unglued, While words which all revered are now erased. But while injustices should be redressed, Iconoclasm can exceed all sense— When free expression finds itself suppressed, Then tolerance becomes a sad pretense. For though things change, some things stay valid still: Light is not dark, nor yet is good now ill. This sonnet has received an Honorable Mention in the Society of Classical Poets 8th Annual Poetry Competition.