Searching for Significance

Music: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Sequenced by Barry Taylor

Alpha List Political Poems Philosophical Poems Contents Home Copyright by Nicholas Gordon

Searching for significance, One finds the bloody trail Leading to a sea of bones Along the eastern shore. In the end there's no defense For something that must fail, As politicians work the phones To dredge up one vote more. All great ideas eventually, Besieged, must turn to those Who make a livelihood of death And cherish what is real. For greatness, large or small, must be A burden that bestows Upon these loose-limbed lords of breath A wound time cannot heal.