Do you dare go one step beyond? <br /> the limits of your comfort zone? <br />Rely upon yourself alone <br /> and take the road to Trebizond. <br /> <br />A city where the minarets <br />are peopled by resentful ghosts <br />Who vainly shout their empty boasts <br />And voice aloud their dire threats. <br /> <br />Brag of past depravity. <br />For which the suffer punishment. <br />They weep and wail their discontent. <br />Condemned for all eternity. <br /> <br />Are you brave enough to face <br />All of the dangers you might find <br />enough to break the strongest mind. <br />In that long lost and fearsome place. <br /> <br /> A city which was once designed <br /> to be a place a place of peace and rest. <br />Hypotheses could be refined, <br /> and theories put to the test. <br /> <br />Fate was to prove the wise men fools. <br />As she has often done before <br />Fomented into civil war. <br /> The views of the opposing schools <br /> <br />The learned men were powerless <br /> they could not stem the violence <br />Though they foresaw the consequence <br />As followers sought to impress. <br /> <br />The views which they held to be true. <br /> On other men who disagreed <br />Defending their own narrow creed. <br /> As bigots always tend to do. <br /> <br />The learned men were first to die <br />They weren’t as wise as they had thought <br />they had no time to wonder why. <br />They perished in the first onslaught. <br /> <br />Their wailing ghosts will argue still <br />that they were right the others wrong. <br />I have no doubt they always will <br />that’s why they stay where they belong. <br /> <br />Confined to haunted minarets <br /> in a city men have forgot. <br />They still owe payments on their debts. <br />You may be fearful I am not. <br /> <br />I dare to take that step beyond <br /> the confines of my comfort zone <br /> and travel on to Trebizond <br />Though usually I go alone. <br /> <br />06/05/2009 <br />http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers<br /><br />ivor or ivor.e hogg<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dare-you-come-with-me/
