Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness Is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. Charlotte Bronte, 1847
in our country tolerance is waning
as the world turns right
all those long battles for human rights
papered over with short-sighted dogma
heartless theory where
ideology trumps reason
historically, we know all these things
just ask the Jews of Berlin
all those crazy Russian cats
playing jazz in those cool gulags
ask the Cree how ideology
worked out for them
as the Jesuit crows descended
like black rain
as the future faded fast and final on Hiroshima
in the bright light of a promised dark
we are dust
specks under the illuminating sun
what we take from this earth
and each other
the measure
of our complicity
what we give back
our only chance at grace
Michael Dennis
http://michaeldennispoet.blogspot.ca
Peterborough Poets 