No battering ram can penetrate
Walls that have no logic
Make no sense to common
Knowledge.
Why waste the energy
In siege against a fortress
Hot oil and arrows
When the war is not worth winning?
(Previously published in The Poet’s Porch, Oct.2000, winner of The Poet’s Porch Award for excellence)
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