Free speech or censorship?
     Words denied,
     what will you accept?
Meaning or moral,
    the mistake of it all, to
resist, refrain from, even
                   deny the call.
Tempers explode, ideals persist,
not once for a moment do the
     culprits see the gist
            of the message.
   Minds blocked by hate, after
     the fact, peace is erased
        as simple as that.

12/15/2023                                                                                        j.g.l.