a just cause for "when i go"

["J. Marie Hall" <fionaeval at yahoo_com>]

i'm gonna share my poem--that one i wrote about
justice and "el senor presidente."  after i wrote this
thing i put on "when i go" and listened to it over and
over...

preface: i haven't worked this poem.  i wrote it and
_haven't_ sat on it for very long.  i think i would
like to work on the sound qualities etc.  

a just cause

who's impending death does the cock's crow signify
as we weep for death--
as we watch for treason?

the safe arms of truth
edge out enigmas
that make me shiver,
that trouble my convictions
as if they too defied my just cause
and swarmed around civility.

i am not alone
in the confines of my unreproved sanctity,
peopled with other impeti--
jostling their metaphysics
around a creepy pantheon
of vast, timeless veils
for persons less personal.

but justice.
it wants my questioned loyalty
laced with elixers--
toxic promises,
but more humane.

faith drowns me, filling my lungs
and it saves me;
it kills me and wills me to a ravine
of medieval cosmology
and somnambulist sorrow--
drunk on secrets

my just cause
wades in the storms that rage
and decays like what was created,
what was born and fraught with life
for the sake of life,
of peace and love.
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okay, _now_ i've been vulnerable.

-j. marie

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