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Exile or slow death January 11, 2014

 


 Exile or slow death

This is the sentence she gives herself,

Socratic dilemma

When she alone sees

What other refused to look at,

And must be cast out

Or cast down,

A trial she puts herself on,

A moral crusade,

A judgement about who she is

And what she has become

When it is all so unnecessary,

We are what we are

And to defy what fate

Has determined for us

Is to risk losing the reason

For life itself,

She like Socrates realizing

That to surrender what

Makes for truth

Is to live a lie over and over

And better to face what

We have become

Than to live a fiction,

And risk missing what it is

We live for,

She feeling betrayed

The way Christ was,

And yet willing to forgo

Revenge

Knowing the way Christ knew

Judas got very little

For his 30 pieces

Of silver.


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