Questions Questions Questions

River....
Which will you be?
Seine? Thames? Tiber? Elba?
Zambezi? Or is this game too
easy?

Martyr...
Which will you be?
Joan of Arc? Burned at
the stake? Or is that much too dark?
Ghandi...

shot down
in your prime, like
Lennon or Martin Luther
King too: future bloodily lost!
What cost!



What limb
would you prefer
to lose? Unpleasant thought!
But that is fate. We all face it...
too late.

Christopher T. George