Thursday, August 4, 2022

A Sad Old Man on the Witness Stand - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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A Sad Old Man on the Witness Stand

 

How easy it is to scorn the man we see

Bloated and loud-mouthed, insolent to all

A foul and loathsome tormentor of souls

A false accuser, a treacherous man

 

And now we see him brought low at last

Sweating and coughing and goggling his eyes

The tormentor now snarling in outrage and fear

His lies and greed and hate turned back on him

 

A curious thing about this squirming creature:

Maybe in him we see something of ourselves

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