Questions by Jeremys Sandford RIP (c )

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Subject: Questions by Jeremys Sandford RIP   (c )

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> Questions            
> 
> there was a time
> when I who was
> who I was then
> walked and sang
> only
> injustice
> fought my fight
> shouting amidst
> the blackness
> 
> so how can I now
> sitting by lemon-green waters
> or in green mountains
> warmed by an April sun
> reconcile
> myself as I am now
> with he who fought so long
> amid the darkness
> against injustice
> 
> 
> ~
> 
> 
> that contented man who now
> the mirror shows me
> that man who now
> pitches his tent 
> beside the waters
> of a more
> Arcadian sea
> how can I be that same he
> who once 'the conscience of
> a nation stirred'?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> a voice answers
> there came the day
> you learned with pain
> that he who touches pitch
> will become himself defiled
> that in fighting ugliness
> you had yourself become ugly
> and, despite all the evils in it
> the world remains a place
> where beauty can be achieved
> 
> you knew already that
> a man is ennobled
> by fighting evil
> where he finds it
> now it was time to learn that
> it is also necessary for a man
> to find peace within himself
> which then may be contagious
> 
> to seek to put oneself alright
> to find a pattern in just one day
> this can be a sacrament
> so, after many years
> fighting the negative
> a man may seek
> to ally himself with
> the positive.
> 
> By Jeremy Sandford
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> http://www.jeremysandford.org.uk/jsarchive/warp-writing-cathy.html
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