Prophetic Temptation
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If only poets could entice the world,
If only. Maybe they would cause the rain
To fall in wadis. Mysteries unfurled
By stanzas could obliterate the stain
Of ordinariness, the grayness, blur
Of unclear spirits who have never thought
About essentials, and the drone and slur
Of politics. Our souls would not be bought.
The brutishness of heroes would dissolve
And even hard divinity would die.
The desert-like religions would evolve
And priests would love instead of being sly.
..If only poets could entice the earth,
…. A Buddha-like ideal might give new birth.