Someone Said

Truth like rain had fallen
iced and hard.
Perhaps it had blistered
'haps it did burn.

Perhaps that apple
that had fallen
'haps it merely
had a worm.

And perhaps the evil
is only imaginary
the darkness, light tricks,
pain: kindness misconstrued.

Perhaps the demons
merely angels
'haps that God
merely delusion

Someone said.
Someone said!
T'was swiftly and oh so well-spoken
Only, I wonder, only, I hesitate,

For the orators and philosophers
who applaud god-forgetting
and intellect strutting
seem themselves to have forgotten

That someone's
perhaps troubled now,
'haps less than happy now,
for that someone happens to be dead.