August 29, 2019Poem

Is it politic

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Is it politic

To express

My reservation

The prudency of words

Their meaning

Open to interpretation

What weight my truth

The thrust

Of my infatuation

With language

Seemingly at odds

With those who may

View

My rendered thoughts

As akin to a belief

In difference

If only for the moment

Of perusal

What of my refusal

To enter into

The mutuality of exchange

When acceptance

Is reciprocation

How can I not question

Narrowness

When it implicates

My own restricted confine

Objectivity

Is by degree

As fallible a position

As subjectivity

When with every decision

We make

We move

All of the answers

To the questions

We feel duty bound

To ask,

One step closer

To our own