Retorts and Refrains

Let justice flow as water

And kindness fall as rain

Here in the ordinary

Skirmishes and burnishes

Of life.

The melodrama continues

Will truth prevail?

The prophets of old echo

Voices of reason

And spirituality.

Pernicious evil

Noisy clangs of songs

Empty inter-faith

Veils the righteousness

Which can be heard

In the psyche.

As one hears the music

Before it starts

And unscrambles

Lyrics and notes,

The taste of the sour tongue

Drones on

Drowning out

The sweet sorrow

Of yester-years.

In tune shall the itching ears

Only hear

What they blusteringly choose

Or will another muse

Awaken their senses?

I shall whittle

Out the night

The fright

Of the frenzied

Whimsical

Whimsies.

Introspectively

Rest

Will not be

Intercepted

But will

Stave off the pride

Knowingly

Unwittingly

And unwillingly

The answers

May not

Yet

Arrive.