You Can’t Evict An Idea Whose Time Has Come

“You can’t evict an idea whose time has come.”
                                      -OWS protestors

You can’t evict
An idea whose time has come
I can’t go back to believing
We should never expect
Goodness for its own sake
Goodness without a price tag.

I can’t go back to believing
The highest virtue is
Not making a fuss
Not causing trouble
Moving along with the flow of traffic
In no one’s way . . .

Moving from my own truth
May be messy
May be terrifying
But is exhilarating enough that, no
I won’t go back into my box.


©Wendy Mulhern
November 15, 2011



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