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Kurt Philip Behm
Poems
Jun 2018
The Incarcerated Word
What was created to expose
is now a fortress just to hide
A bastion of higher learning
within a haven safe for lies
Where discourse once was treasured
the ivy droops and sighs
With comfort their true measure,
the dilettantes still cry
Plato is disgusted,
John Locke is more than riled
As a millennia of learning
is mocked in false denial
Students weak and wounded
from those lessons never learned
Their tomorrowβs but a doomsday
their futures sure to burn
Those words were there to save them
both the hated and revered
All truth in dialectics
βnow abandoned by their fear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2016)
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