integrity On Trial
by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com
How pervasive the effort to make sheep of humankind. Wells’ “The Trial” by Kafka is an historic treatise on holding on, over giving up. (Image by Flux Magazine)
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Integrity on Trial
by Odin Roark
What is out there
that colors our inner being at will,
that sometimes takes our hand,
that sometimes drags us across their rusted yesterday,
daring us to coalesce with their future?
What is out there
that waits in the darkness for us to falter,
that thinks our will is but a matter of time,
that marvels at the pain we'll willingly endure.
What is out there
that is so patient
as to sleep while we run,
to laugh as we cry
to wait with outstretched hand
as our thinking becomes a skeptical crawl
searching for the truth.
Wanting to believe in factuality is also out there
somewhere in the illusory world.
powerful write, well said
Never Stop Writing!
m
Integrity has always been on trial, but these days it's much easier to join forces with those take the blame for our indiscretions.
Ron
Love ya!
Jane