tilting

[Guest Mike Connor]

Tilt as you will, the edifice stands unmoved, untouched, aloof, reserved,

unknowing and uncaring for transgressions, or tilters, most at last unnerved.

 

It stands and mocks your every effort, oblivious to your fire and deep frustration,

why tilt then ? Are you stupid ? or possessed of more than normal expectation ?

 

One tilts because one must, it is in fact at last a useless and involuntary action,

or do in fact some tilters then indeed expect that they might gain some satisfaction ?

 

May one expect that tilting when well done will bring such ugly edifices swiftly tumbling?

or be realistic and then realise with sorrow that even the attempt is humbling ?

 

Who knows ? who cares ? and who is to say that tilting is a waste of worthy time in fact ?

perhaps less tilting and more thought, a subtle and intriguing exercise in guile and tact ?

 

The monuments stand still, regardless of the tilters, now for aeons slowly surely wearing

with minor damage, but their turrets and emplacements, brace the sky uncaring.

 

What price then such an edifice to topple? worth the nerves and weapons worn in fight ?

perhaps twere well to leave the edifice alone, untouched, unknown, and careless of it´s ugly plight ?

 

Ah would that t´were so simple, for as long as monstrous edifices are designed and built,

some men will attempt to down them at a stroke, or be obliged at least in hope to tilt.

 

TL

MC