Let Nemesis In For Action Poem by Joseph S. Josephides

They admonish me: “Don’t revenge, let the time punish,
vengeance is more expensive than what has been lost,
for if you imitate an unjust man then you are empty,
or absurd if you govern him, a coward if you serve him.”

They advice me: 'Learn to suffer and to endure,
if they unfairly knock you down you stand above them',
I hear inner a voice: 'How do you respect your temple? '

But if they pull my eyes while I’m reading my History,
or pull my teeth while I’m dinning my holy bread, and
if I forgive a bad man who thereafter hurts a good man,
who becomes the innocent prey of a malicious hunter,
'let Nemesis in for action', I exclaim with a decisive hand,
let me overthrow the tables setup in the temple by traders,
to prevent silver and intrigues to falsify values and home.

Only the pigeons of the traders we set them free,
for we must let the innocence to fly in the highest.

Our Temple is entitled to have a net made of steel,
not a spider’s web which is pierced by giant insects.



© JosephJosephides