Querulous Concord

by shaun lawton 

How to satisfy, 

that is bring around, 

or establish, win over, 

demonstrate and make 

a believer out of someone, 

that crime does not pay; 

that wickedness and mis-

conduct does not allow 

remuneration or ultim-

ate satisfaction in the 

grander scheme of 

things; and who 

is to say, one way

 or the other, that the 

tension fraught between 

the two opposing forces of 

good and evil isn't somehow 

a natural amperage, who's to 

declare these integral, inter-

locked stimuli remain in 

constant opposition after 

all, if their cohabitation 

provides the essence 

of the whole?  If the 

paradox of truth may 

lead to madness, 

then can the certainty 

of misrepresentation 

potentially lead to a 

balanced sense 

of sanity?