Presentiments

You can take a dim view of it - with no 

interest expressed in anything you’ve 

done your best to present in balanced 

and neutral perspective, there’s these 

nagging presentiments you’ve failed - 

but to begin with expectations weren’t 

too clear; like - experiential you’d say, 

a test of your character’s nobility 

Placing your beliefs in the purview of 

public you’ve never met is an ordeal - 

one where you skilfully play helpless 

roles with éclat yet too far away from 

the gist of any rational appreciation - 

or within their ability to comprehend 

You recreate eco-ideal transcendent 

dream-places no-one in scheming to 

take over your world could live in, or 

you for that matter; neither veil, habit 

nor burqa can equate to peace in our 

time when even their decency fails 

© 26 October 2014, I. D. Carswell