I’ve stood on the shores of time
and watched as the waves rolled in
one
behind another.
Over a lifetime,
I’ve seen the ebb
and flow.
The come
and go.
Watched language turn in
and back on itself
Through vortices of ideals,
theory
and rhetoric
Bemused, I find myself tonight
contemplating the phrase
“We are a Nation of laws.”
Oh How that meaning’s changed!
From right wing radical
to progressive idealist
Spinning like a top
through the hours
days
years
Until we find ourselves…
Here!
Where it seems,
no law
has quite the power enough
to do
what it is
needs doing.
