A Moment's Pause & Repose Poem by John Sensele

Pause for a moment with neither torment nor comment
To appreciate the fate that's made you great
To acknowledge the development you enjoy in every compartment
With neither rancor nor hate in your best state.

Pause for a moment with neither serpent nor judgment
To appreciate the date you set
Your eyes on God's pronouncement
To arrest the crest of a threat in your pate, of late.

Pause for a moment with neither escarpment nor debasement
To appreciate the wisdom of boredom
To factorise and sanitise the ferment and deferment cement
That bears consequences of offences committed in a crazy kingdom.

Pause for a moment with neither enjambment nor inveiglement
To appreciate the cue, view and virtue of a recidivist
Who somehow woos you glue and stew into an apparent
Confrontation with unwise intention which you insist mustn't exist to resist.