aged hands and though the shackles have been removed slavery’s chains of poverty still remain freedom continues to be offered on the installment plan with the occasional one-night stand with libertas as payment for services rendered corporeal freedom relegated to words of hope indicating these things take time but what really takes time is how long it takes pontius pilate societies to wash the innocent blood of the oppressed from their hands
I suspect it’s a never ending process along the lines of Lady MacBeth–“Out, out, damned spot…”.
So vivid I feel i walked it
To was the blood of the innocent from the oppressed hands. Well said.
…rather than seeing the beauty, the intrinsic wort. No water can wash that stain
their hands are like duck feather, the blood rolls away