even sacred space has room that's <br />not invasion proof - there's liberal <br />confirmation raids incurring greater <br />anguish now occur most every day; <br />from where I stand the pathway's <br />trampled smooth by errant feet <br />competing in unseemly haste to <br />dump their woes and beat retreat <br /> <br />they ask of me a counsel I abide in <br />wisdom of the ages scribed in gothic <br />script declaiming options lost by <br />overcrowding private life; yet to <br />tell them where to go is not the <br />kind advice they'd want to hear <br />© 29 August 2011, I. D. Carswell<br /><br />Ivan Donn Carswell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sacred-space-2/
