Discourse is not discussion but debate
but many take it for competition
to win at all costs
for rhetorics and Ad Hominems
they have no interest for Liberty
and use peers
to pressure for a lemon until its empty
only seeds remain.
Then to understand to plant them instead
for citric to a pestilence turns
for they used freedumb
to beat you into line and submission
and your mind was chained
like an elephant
which in circus stood - only a string held it
but it was used to it.
It doesn't run away for since a child
it was taught, but as an adult
it could snap the chain
at a whim, but never really does
until a mouse whispers
into its ears:
"There's more to it than silly tricks
and citrus peels" |