Colin F. Jones

OBSERVATION

It is not hard to read a good man’s tracks,
Nor know from what he does what he lacks,
He will in ignorance display his prejudice,
And by his bias demonstrate where he fits.
One caught in darkness tempted by the light,
To lure his vision from the darker night
Does not the shadow of the light post disregard,
Lest observation of subject he retard.
The practiced eye is lost though in his script,
That assumption by its absence firmly gripped,
Is used to counter and indeed accuse,
In order to ignite an emotional fuse,
That more than what he writes is revealed,
By those ingredients by which it is concealed.