by Matt Dubois

Created on: March 07, 2007   Last Updated: May 14, 2007

Shades of Gray

What is the cost of freedom?

They say it isn't free.
Will another seventy billion dollars
buy back all the C4 and cordite and metal
and bodies
fired into the dusty places of the world?

Who is right?

No one can say.
When yellow pamphlets rain
from the azure
telling lies and truths
in shades of gray,
and God the arbiter
is called down
on either side,
who is David and who is Goliath?

Is injustice soluble in fire?

If not, it won't stop men from trying.
How many buds
of self-righteous flame
must fall from the sky,
or grow in the streets slowly, to blossom
into boiling liquescence
through mortar and glass
and flesh
before none remain
but the just?

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