answers premeditated

nauseating emotions

bubble inside my head

even as volcanic liquid

roll in my stomach

every time i sit with groups

of women and men questing

after questions with answers

premeditated and easy

confirming established prejudices

leaving no space for timid, tentative

rejoins, which may be closer to truth

to set free women, men and children

© henry victor     30.09.2003

varied roads

Miller and i together met our master Jesus

the Nazarene in whose school we schooled

before we drove together on the highway

until we came to the single junction

at the junction with no signals we decided

to part our ways; Miller took the path

lit throughout the way enjoying power

in the roadway of magic filled with pilgrims

those pilgrims sang the name of the master

as i took the path, unlit with only few trekking

this service road was named: nameless

with neither power nor magic to make it easy

henry victor     11.01.2003