I Saw a Leper
I saw a leper today for a momentRavaged defiled amputated by disease
I was angry
I wanted him away from me
Why
He had done nothing
He was complete
He was content
He was alive
He was the truth of that which I vainly imagined
Myself to be in the extremity that he was living
But in that same moment
I knew I was a liar
For in my heart I knew
That he had conquered something
Which would have consumed my soul
But through his herculean efforts
Had given him winged freedom
While I would have been
As now chained to my fear
Poetry by josephus
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Written on 2008-04-22 at 22:11
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