RESPONSIBILITY - A Poem
your power lies
not in the lightning
or dark thunder
flat and ominous in
your crushing fist.
your threat lies
not in the powder-blue
of your steel eyes
not in the care-less
sideglance you flick
at a blind man
in the audience.
your menace lies
not in the earth-rumble
of your marching men
not in the lava of iron
that flows in
their hardening veins.
.
your power and its sneering
brothers wreak havoc
and flame
and mayhem
and death because
of my heart.
© Robert Cook