Walled Within the World
May 24, 2020
That prisoner of the spirit merits some free air
Expounded to release him from his dungeon mind
Whence comfortably inherited fixed legalism binds
Without a doubt ensuring prior truth molested
Onions unknown, flocked carapaces, down,
Disport as insulation to his empty pocket heart
A sort which sorts reality as silly sheep and goats
One bred to be exploited; one adorned with flatteries tropes:
A strew of gauche intemperate idolatries
Their concourse ideology, or draw of appetite,
A commonwealth of games in parliamentary elections
The soda in the pop of alimentary predilections
Whose urges surge the sugars, crying havoc, whispering wails
Over and over, on a diseased metabolism
Of psyches, physiologies, in all - the total frame
It's how we eat and speak we live life as ordained
By God, in gifted freedom, as the sad retained remainders,
Who by The Flood, The Fall, have made a company of strangers
Untrue pursuviants of love's lost verities
Each in his bark afloat alone upon a human stew
As such, as given, we cede ourselves no harmonies
The soul and all society a coney rabbit hole
Down wherein folds and spools no rules, only controls
Here rules are abstract obstacles descried illusions
By splendid sleights deluded
Each is his island, no parts pleasure the dissevered main
The tolls of life call, peal to heal, to patch us up
Sent out to tell us weal and woe and sorry disappointment
But then their chimes strike empathies with only Peeping Toms
The spider feasts upon flies clinging to walls
Activist lay your line down; shoot it from your lips
Militant spray your gun around; firing from the hip
Colleagues in deeds together, brothers unto one another
Advocates in the trade makes every human breast disaster
Yet abject ardently, set neither for, against, by policy
Nobody's stuff enough to warrant absolute authority
Artificially spun self-serving bringing only calamity
And herein is your Valhalla? No!, nor neither a Nirvana,
Can soothe that fire we choose to seethe ourselves among
All crimes in-arms; slap-happy, clashing, contravening, squashing
Outbreaks of loving peace
This is the truth, the trough we chase to revel in
Like as the cravens censured in the Lord's blessed book.
A mite bee sting to have what for our greater wealths
Sits rankling in the dish but too much chokes and chafes
Against the grain; besides to have it salves that unguent regnant pain
That channels, amplifies, our animal angled rage
Go look him up, he's us; confessing on a Google page
The same page may be vending inoffensive winners
Of upright livings; but here he stares a work right out of you
Oppressing through your liberties; exchanging suzerains
As acrimony's accessions
The guy whose gluey eye runs weighting trifle difference
Settling scores for others, vies unkind doctrinal rounds
No bell no corner, referee; all title is out of bounds
A gorgeous righteous free-for-all; glee, contumely, confounds
Nailed to his Standard towel hangs a dangling social justice
Thrown in with kitchen sink, lashings of pepper, curry, mustard,
Surmise his stratagem; vim his malaise
And enjoyments only residents of cemeteries
His eidolon, his penchant grieves the given 'must'
Which rests for its performance on the fallible best of us
Who do: – remaining pining, but yet not complaining
Just getting on with things
To make, as best, what might be, as is blessed by Providence
Our lots who tot the common lot up as sufficient
A meek society where reverence serves as co-efficient
And forms respect for bread earned under moot conditions
Here stakes his eagle in the ground of such concession
And were the ground less levelled, clear, then should no contour
But suffer him. Thus on the peace of toleration
He rests his shoulder
Converges so to scourge what needs no purge, but only learning
By an opening-out, an education, let the morning sun in
Rising as like a strong man loves to run his race;
Know you, vacate your hegemonies, concede The Son his place