Conflict isn’t a suit I wear well.

…although when need be, I can make it fit.
Tonight’s debate at the cafe concerned schools of thought.  It did not need to be a debate.  It could have been as simple as what is considered decent among two people from very different philosophical points of reference – simply said, “agree to disagree”.  Such was not the [...]

Champion of the Human Race

Not for him the pride of place,
Champion of the Human Race,
Victim of the tyrant’s spite,
And the nobles’ rancorous might,
The life he chose was one of seeking
Torture, misery, death, and beating -
With this intent to teach the people
That all are brothers, free and equal.
Leader of a rebel band,
He sought, at last, a foreign strand,
Fleeing from the [...]