Monday, April 29, 2024

APOLOGETICS

They say discord 
is the spark 

from which the bonfires 
of great art start—

by which the smooth 
and cornerless light 
of perception

is permitted 
to scatter, and our 
awareness to increase. 

But many are we 
who'd ride shotgun 
for the dark,

who'd just as soon 
disown 
our own sentience 

if it meant we'd 
never have to hear 
the disharmony;

we'd rather use and use
to the point 
of abuse 

that which we already 
think of as "ours" 

than so much as 
show respect 

to our hatred 
of the new.