Never Sought Poem by John Sensele

I never sought the confrontation
Nor to worsen their temptation
To steal the freedom
I deny lives their terror fiefdom.

I never sought the infection
Nor to diminish their resurrection
Of long debunked theories
That claimed covid scrammed from lampoon laboratories.

I never sought the pain
Nor discarded Hazel in the rain
When happenstance for instance
Put to death our civil circumstance.

I never sought the fame
Nor to paint in gold the name
They blame for the promotion
In earn despite the green of their emotion.

I never sought the advance
Nor to juggle with Julie by chance
If I could cast away the sorrow I felt
When by her grave in tears I knelt.

I never sought the gender
Nor to live a life of surrender
To restrictions patriarchy ramps up
When feminism flies from the cacophony of their cup.

I never sought to love
Nor to say I do in the white glove
Mom and dad put on my hand
To nail my future into his gold band.

I never sought the shame
Nor to glorify the cantakerous claim
He made to blame my youth
For the harassment that proved him uncouth.