The Final Cause?

 
 
I know it now
as I knew
It then
 
The Force behind
the Will
of Men
 
now that I
know the
Errant Cause*
 
grieves me so
to give
due pause
 
as it did
when just
a boy
 
to know
with even
lesser joy
 
why women
build
and men
destroy
 
*
 
It is the Bane
of History
and why
we’re neither
safe nor free
 
* I have detailed this issue in many writings: most recently in, https://litvote.com/the-human-prospect/
 

© R.Kanth 2023

Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (Novel) , A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse)