When a person dies wrongfully
There are inquests, prosecutions, imprisonments
Someone takes the fall.
But who takes responsibility
When an idea dies?
"Not all ideas are good,"
You might say.
"Not all people are good,"
I return.
(In fact, most aren't.)
Pity, then, that mostly-bad people continue to swell
Bursting the seams of this shoddily-stitched world
Whilst ideas, thinly spread on the ground, perish
From the pervasive and sinister causes
Of tradition and indifference.