David Meredith's Blog - Posts Tagged "perserverance"
To the Wrongfully Excluded - Ostracism
There is a lot of chaos and violence in the world today and as a result a great number of people feel excluded, ignored and helpless to access the benefits and goods of life and citizenship which many of us take for granted; Boston, the Supreme Court, the many struggles of the disabled... So many people who feel left out. It inspired me to pen this acrostic poem...
Ostracism – An Acrostic Poem
-David Meredith
Out beyond the resplendent walls,a luminous city shines effulgent on a lonely hill – a solitary beacon against tellurian night.
Songs of joy abound within from throats harmonious, agnate, fully initiated into that fine company with all the splendor and fanfare it entails; willfully ignorant and indifferent to the strange and the aberrant without.
The unjustly excluded crowd near the immutable barrier - clawing, pleading, yearning for subsumption, battering themselves against that impervious barricade like twilit moths - frantic but inconsequential - invisible to the exultant residents, yet they themselves missing no whisper nor glimpse of the celestial coterie; no slightest privilege of the great and the beautiful remaining unperceived
Relentlessly, thoughtlessly are they occluded by accident of fate, impeded by fatuous custom, stymied by imperishable convention, lost and dismayed in perpetual, Cimmerian dusk - that which they desire lying tantalizingly near, yet ever beyond their suspiring grasp.
Aspirants become foolishly perhaps.
Constant and unceasing in their placation
Imperturbable in their unwavering entreatment, hopeful that one day some transcendent creature might provide portal and key; that cracks of lambency might split that hermetic façade to spill across those desiccant slopes
Suffusing the unjustly excluded at last with the light and privilege of the protected select
Making them a grotesque curiosity no longer, a malformed oddity no more, but rather a perfectly incorporated, diacritical portion of the whole - unmaligned and unmolested ad infinitum.
Ostracism – An Acrostic Poem
-David Meredith
Out beyond the resplendent walls,a luminous city shines effulgent on a lonely hill – a solitary beacon against tellurian night.
Songs of joy abound within from throats harmonious, agnate, fully initiated into that fine company with all the splendor and fanfare it entails; willfully ignorant and indifferent to the strange and the aberrant without.
The unjustly excluded crowd near the immutable barrier - clawing, pleading, yearning for subsumption, battering themselves against that impervious barricade like twilit moths - frantic but inconsequential - invisible to the exultant residents, yet they themselves missing no whisper nor glimpse of the celestial coterie; no slightest privilege of the great and the beautiful remaining unperceived
Relentlessly, thoughtlessly are they occluded by accident of fate, impeded by fatuous custom, stymied by imperishable convention, lost and dismayed in perpetual, Cimmerian dusk - that which they desire lying tantalizingly near, yet ever beyond their suspiring grasp.
Aspirants become foolishly perhaps.
Constant and unceasing in their placation
Imperturbable in their unwavering entreatment, hopeful that one day some transcendent creature might provide portal and key; that cracks of lambency might split that hermetic façade to spill across those desiccant slopes
Suffusing the unjustly excluded at last with the light and privilege of the protected select
Making them a grotesque curiosity no longer, a malformed oddity no more, but rather a perfectly incorporated, diacritical portion of the whole - unmaligned and unmolested ad infinitum.
