CAUSE-MONGER’S DENOUEMENT
Tom Booker
“We dedicate ourselves . . .”
knowing little to what or to whom
Yet we pledge faith and loyalty
to ourselves, we suppose, and to noble thoughts
Vaguely sacred moments of common cause
resemble others of occasional note
Dissipate to slim remembrance
lie undisturbed, until next in the series
We clamber home, to each one’s own
connecting briefly at replays
Anti-climactic, all of it seems
and any ideals sleep closely with dreams
