Saturday, October 17, 2020

Trust As You Will

Arc de Triomphe

The land of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

saw it through the prism of its pride and

trust to welcome those whose minds were

not free and whose souls were on lease

to a jealous, possessive spirit of conquest

demanding of its faithful complete and utter

surrender to the sole significance of their

lives; the imperative of martyrdom in the

divine process of taking another's life as

penalty for giving offense to the sacred

memory of one whose message deemed

incontrovertible must only obliquely be

referred to with the utmost reverence. Now

the City of Light is once more in mourning

as grief sweeps the nation with yet another

atrocious admonition of the steep price to pay

when the spirit of acceptance approaches the

cul de sac of entitled retribution for nothing

is free in life without prudent caution, not 

even the Republic's most prized free speech.


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