where nosy, prying eyes can somehow hear
is where you will find a solemn luring
of one's natural fear
to believe that those who do so wish to know
will come to acquire the serving secrets of
his foe
an illegitimate child or a hush hush love affair
gone sour
give whomever the right of weapon and with it
he'll wield his purposeless power
honesty is far out numbered by the hands that
voted greed
many a man is only out for himself in a time
when too much is not enough to fill such
emptying need
where this so tempting tap to the darkness lays
is where the opinion by the collective few up
to no apparent good quietly stays
unknowingly 'Off The Chosen Path'............
(Dec.12, 1993 pm)