The Old Fox
He was right after
all, the Old Fox,
pushing all their
buttons to bring out
their chief feature,
the darkest secret
of their nature, and
they only stayed
with him who rose to
the occasion
and put their need
for greater meaning
above ephemeral self-interest.
No-one
knew where he came
from, he kept
that secret to make
his teaching more
alluring, and they
hung upon his every
word until they
could take no more,
and they left more broken
than when
they came, writing books
and maligning
his intention; but the
Old Fox knew
what he was doing, feeding
the hungry
and starving the poor,
and those that
stayed to hear the
worst went away
wiser in the sacred knowledge
of their
chief feature that blinded
them to
their true nature.
