Dare You Come With Me? Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

Do you dare go one step beyond?
the limits of your comfort zone?
Rely upon yourself alone
and take the road to Trebizond.

A city where the minarets
are peopled by resentful ghosts
Who vainly shout their empty boasts
And voice aloud their dire threats.

Brag of past depravity.
For which the suffer punishment.
They weep and wail their discontent.
Condemned for all eternity.

Are you brave enough to face
All of the dangers you might find
enough to break the strongest mind.
In that long lost and fearsome place.

A city which was once designed
to be a place a place of peace and rest.
Hypotheses could be refined,
and theories put to the test.

Fate was to prove the wise men fools.
As she has often done before
Fomented into civil war.
The views of the opposing schools

The learned men were powerless
they could not stem the violence
Though they foresaw the consequence
As followers sought to impress.

The views which they held to be true.
On other men who disagreed
Defending their own narrow creed.
As bigots always tend to do.

The learned men were first to die
They weren’t as wise as they had thought
they had no time to wonder why.
They perished in the first onslaught.

Their wailing ghosts will argue still
that they were right the others wrong.
I have no doubt they always will
that’s why they stay where they belong.

Confined to haunted minarets
in a city men have forgot.
They still owe payments on their debts.
You may be fearful I am not.

I dare to take that step beyond
the confines of my comfort zone
and travel on to Trebizond
Though usually I go alone.

06/05/2009
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