Colin F. Jones

HOW FAR IS TOO FAR?

How far is too far? Is it as far as you would have me go?
Is it along a pathway where, there are places you don’t know?
Is it a distance you have measured, where you draw the line,
Where the tolerance that you treasure, cannot equal mine?
Or is it based on your conceit, which is envious of my own?
Therefore has become deceit, now assumption is outgrown.
A King is always right, even when we know he’s wrong,
But a king you’ll never be, though you try to sing his song.
You cannot force your thoughts, into this man’s mind to think,
And your image from my eye, can be removed each time I blink.
You cannot measure out the distance, or where I choose to run,
Nor restrain my firm insistence, to do what you may not have done.
For the God that I do worship stands not poised above these feet,
But is a mixture of the shadows that fill the complex busy street.