Sunday, February 24, 2019

Pico’s Valentine

A sane society would want
To cultivate its people
Not fasten its talents to felonies
 
The arts not armaments
And great music would spring up
A mood of jocular seriousness
 
Each life would take on a sheen
As when gold is discovered
And we would rush to protect it
 
Then maybe the spirit of the age
Whose combat is his gaze
Merciful but stern
 
Would turn to teach us
What we never
Seem to learn

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