Like Any Fragile Creature

Thoughts have roots and veins.

Each takes pains
to prove why it’s essential.
Like any fragile creature,

each campaigns to be retained –
to be bricked into
an edifice of common sense –
or picked to ride astride

an ideology wherein it might
survive in sweet suspension
as unquestioned fact.
Like any fragile creature,

it will hide – and strive to stay
intact. Some do, some don’t.  
If you’re fortunate,
most won’t.






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