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Shame the Madness

The thoughts of events at home abound
In all minds filled
With want instilled 
As the presence of stains and scars hound
Humanity
Insanity
To guilt all with what deft play and guile
To try mere man
To want more than
Their due share of blood for lives lost while
Wanting pieces peace
Paid for release.                  (12)

None forgot what wars and arms would wage
Upon a meek
Man just to speak
Of whom had suffered so much more rage
Than that, which went
And should present
Pains some learned well and knew to obey
The methods done,
Dared, doubted but won
The awe anger pronounced and displayed
To render what
Price evil cut.                        (24)

Of their own appeared a hallowed voice
Whose pen reflected
What none expected
In vows which vied for the respected choice
To treat no worse 
Than their past curse
And appear as souls whose customs true
To such Gods’ sights,
Which had man’s heights
In pride and in wealth shared by those who
Knew man’s real worth
Lay in plain birth.                  (36)

Shame the madness with reflections made
In mirrors where
The honest dare
As he had done to see subtle strayed
From the course come
To dissent done
By a conscience in verse to refute
The homage held
By those that spelled
Sin reserved for raw and so acute
A shear demand
A clear command.                   (48)

But command they did to pounce and ply
All powers’ play
Due true display
To put pardon’s above portrayed sighs
Fervor would feel
So true, so real,
He stared down his heralded kin to find
Words to debate
What worlds await
The peoples that pay for sins such minds
Render for those
That render woes.                  (60)

Robert Vincent Mallouk       (4/07/12)
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