Starving Mind
Thank you,
Joseph Pede
Truth hungers for the
starving mind
The passage of time
has rendered history incredibly blind
Little about the past
do we care to remember
It is as though the calendar
went only from January to September
The ground swells
with the remains of all those who have died in battle
Castles built by men when
they were no more than cattle
Cathedrals marked the
beginning of each new schism
Fashionable architecture
eerily baptized the latest designer ism
Kings and queens
stood atop their mighty thrones
In the right hand a sword,
and the other a mercenary’s bones
Aristocrats were
allowed to make work life-long servitude
In the days of yore it
was inappropriate to have opinions and attitude
The hangman’s noose
was always ready to contain a rebel cause
Guillotines made the
tongue permanently pause
Dungeons housed petty
thieves seeking an ounce of bread
Prayer the only
solution when one was eternally dead.
Thank you,
Joseph Pede
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