Disdaining Solid Ground

It seemed so harmless then

The softening of moral ground

Preserved with careful prayer for years

…strange, how with adding a little sand

The secure footing disappears

It seemed so harmless when

Progress replaced Tradition’s ken

Forgetting what ‘they’ built upon

Were more than ideas by men

Now ways once revered are gone

It seemed so harmless when

We misconstrued vast history

And vexed the laws of love

And liberty, and simply being sorry

Is far from being enough

© Janet Martin