Truth is,
-- yet stated --
absolutes,
so, why punish me
against better judgment?

I went all the way over there
probably justifiably,
I never was told the truth
... just punished.

No talk ...
rather a set of symbols
and body language ...
So, I never told the truth.

Whether I dreamed it,
-- not determined --
dreams fell in
three categories:
war, death
and punishment.

Thinking about it later,
in many years made for
sweat-filled nights,
and days of paltry dogma;

So why did I go
all the way over there?

I think, to escape.




Patrick Darnell