Poem Written In Walthamstow (1990-1991) Poem by David Levitas

If thoughts can kill, and deed
Through sufference of others displeasure
(Act as the executioners block)
Become the knife which severs
The innocent's life then bloodied
Are we in mutual murders strife.
Before the act, the deed has done,
Conscience upon its wheel,
Reflecting in its glass the points
Of all our earth bound cerainties
Probes unmercifully, touching truth
With all that pays in lucre; Love
With all that calls in counterfeit; Life
With that which cries from out the pit,
Smiling forth compassion. And what we know of will,
Is ever in absent conscience debt:
Double locked, beyond regret.