Nazarite

guide me to the pillars
that I might
in one last act of sanity
pull down the artifice
of the idol worshippers
and pass, with some dignity,
into the questionable histories.

when all is said and done
and shed and won, the truth
is that I will die alone
in the presence of my enemies
and be eulogized by those
who deserted me in life
as an inconvenient passion.


William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.