Sunday, 4 February 2018

When It Came To Pass



So we pretend we don’t hear the man, he’s so 
preoccupied with being right there’s no space 
for us within his atmosphere, or oxygen either 

most likely he’s converted it into armour-plated 
pedantry of this monologue - which withstands 
all attempts to intercede - or even seek reason 

he glares as if we’re cause of his misanthropy - 
altho’ he wont see it such & we wear contempt 
for simply being there - like the un-adept ones 

he’s characterised in his ranting - no-one is th’ 
Son of God he shrieks - we’re all children with 
destinies not blessed in the bleachers of Eden 

but there’s a compromise if you listen to - and  
heed my preaching; but we cannot hear we all 
whisper to each other - our words thus do not  

clash with th’ same nothing he’s espoused for 
all of us; but then we’re nowhere nearer being 
where we were when it all came to pass… 
© 15 December 2017, I. D. Carswell 

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