Remain Robust Poem by John Sensele

Remain secure, sane and steadfast
When values, beliefs and attitudes collapse
In your environment where you feel aghast
At uncertainties undulating to drift into a lassitude lapse.

Ride above the lure of a fad
Evaporating effort and energy from the greater good
That accrues when you enable the listless lad
To snap out of a macabre mood for being misunderstood.

Rise above seeking puny populism
At the expense of upholding the verity value
You risk sinking into cronyism and egotism
If you relegate better options to the end of the credibility queue.

Spin your sapience to invigorate insights
Into improving the quality of dignity
Enjoyed in lives seeking salvation sites
That hitherto jump and slump into impropriety and inanity.

Slow down when values vacillate
Threatening fabrics of traditional tenets
Creating opportunities for norms and mores to oscillate
Between validation and innovation if society flies into nebulous nets.

Roast risible ruminations
Creeping to kill values held dear
In your society despite machinations
To inject into civility the tremor of a tear and fecund fear.