The Ecphorizer

Turn the searchlight inward, Mahatma Ghandi said.
But who the hell has spotlights
in the middle of his head?

The kingdom is within you,
said Jesus and Tolstoy.
But if the kingdom causes cancer
it might be best not to annoy.

I've traveled far in Concord,
wrote the naturalist Thoreau.
But how the hell he did it
is more than I can know.

Free at last, free at last,
said Martin Luther King.
But freedom too is mental --
at least I've learned one thing. 

Poet and Author Neal Wilgus lives in New Mexico, where he is practicing becoming ambidextrous.  He writes that he "works nights and weekends and hopes to live forever."

More Articles by Neal Wilgus