the place of decision

[fledgist]

 we did not know all that the words have said

in the dead past and what was on the wall

vivid in sunlight is now past recall

but not all meanings dwell amongst the dead

waiting for better times and less cold dread

to illustrate the human rise and fall

of hearts that circulate and do not stall

but pain and narrowness stay in the head

that was a different and a better mind

possessed by those who sought to build our hope

in concrete forms and who not thinking stealth

in any way a virtue felt the kind

were more equipped for climbing the long slope

towards a place where all would share the wealth