Peace and Light (new poem)

Peace and Light (new poem)

Come, read my new poem,
and tell me which poem of yours
I should read.

P & L,
Dah

RE: Peace and Light (new poem)

RE: Peace and Light (new poem)

My answer to pantheism and arrogant hedonism...Try and delete this...
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Verdict (The Moral Question)

"ALL RISE...THIS COURT IS NOW IN SESSION."

I

The wood raises an objection,
"Duplicity, deceit and fraud-
is it standard equipment on all models,
like my bark, sap, branches, cork and roots?"
He faces the jury erect and yet bent
but not broken among his scrupulous peers
who, applauding and approving of
his objection; with surly exterior
but yet diaphanously innocent
within their wooden integrity.

II.

The wood continues,
"Is there variableness and inconstancy
in devotion? Does the highest good
at self-expense recede and retreat
as trade winds? Can never-dying flame
be marketed, bartered and bargained for
like a wayward jurist or political prostitute?
Yes, truly a moral question of all
who would chop, cut, shape
mold and sand us after their whim...
No justice at all in being crafted
by the misshapen and unfit for
their main Intent and Purpose."

III

The wood tenders a pleading under
violet, patronizing sky concluding
his summation in righteous crescendo:
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury-
with regard to our captors and subjugators;
If any one of their number were to walk
into a wax museum, would not even the statues
become nauseated to the point of vomit?"
Upon delivery of his final argument,
the jury raises forked fingers to
violated sky as moral outrage with
righteous furor sieze the day
with final verdict:

The Verdict

"How can the corrupt and totally depraved-
devoid of honor and destitute of integrity
(the lying breed); chop, cut, shape, mold
and sand (with devilish implements), to
inflict their will on the righteous,
rooted in integrity, ever vigilant,
constant paragons of unspoken, virtuous
charity and devotion (the dying breed)?
Tell me then, WHO should shape, and
who should be shaped? Who REALLY is the Crafter,
and WHERE are the crafted?
So tell me, where is the justice?"
JURY DISMISSED.
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A poetic depiction on the total depravity of Humankind, the first tenet of Calvinism.