True power isn’t intimidation
nor does it manifest itself by fear;
lashing out doesn’t help a situation,
nor make a solution any more clear.
Might has never really made a cause right,
only forced gentler souls to be slaves
and pushed trust and reason far out of sight.
It is no great thing, yet we name brutes brave
who resist tender feelings and can strike
without mercy or any sense of shame.
If they can dominate, hold all the cards,
then we cower as they take what they like,
never holding our own culture to blame
while we build more prisons and new graveyards.
08 MAR 2003
for LJ user nutmeggie
