I SUPPOSE

I SUPPOSE


I suppose you could look at it that way
With your nails in your moist callused palms
That the mottos you smoothed out of hearsay
Found their way there from fables and psalms.


And that whilst you would like to believe it
That the values you think are your own
Like the truth as you clearly perceive it
Are both steered by your peers as you’ve grown.


But the measure of ‘Do unto others’
How great thou art!








TIM SANSOM 22ND OCTOBER 2006