Poverty Protects Hope
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Poverty Protects the Slender Hope

By Paul Hall, April, 1986, Mt. Isa, Australia.

The delicacy and the art 

of cunning craftiness

engendered false dependence

and left all men bereft

of anything of value

and in mediocrity,

that which was significant

was stolen by the thief.

But poverty protected

the outcast's slender hope;

whose treasures stay in unseen lands

where only hearts may grope

in desperation and derision, 

beyond a darkened sky

to where a hand does reach for them

descending from on high.

Attention cast on vain things

which gleam before the eyes,

will mar the greatest treasures

which, past all eyesight lies

hidden in forever

where only travelers go,

as outcasts of man's kingdoms,

to see what truth will show.

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... where only travelers go as outcasts of man's kingdoms...

Copyright (c) 1987 by Paul Hall.  All rights reserved.

... poverty protected the outcast's slender hope...