Pressure’s On

All else notwithstanding…
The human element wriggles in furtively.
Giggles and upset, uproar, upswing.
It’s like, would someone please
delineate this madness already?
Pouring forth in a fury, the best side
nevertheless kept hidden.

Positively smitten with smiting,
they lived as free people
and upheld their virtues against those
whose sole task was to ensure their weakening.
A kind of ambiguity intervened,
one which laid all its promise bare,
so that even the least captivated
felt their interest pique.
Certain barriers were compromised,
others still dissolved.

Finally, we feel the touch of true ethics.
We exist in the contrary.
We exist to universal acclaim.

-r. miller