21). The Rest

So, if you are in,
You are in as a noble.
They tried to take you out
Themselves,
Being free of nobility.
It was a global conquest.
They could use you
To test their position.
Which makes their opinions funnier, in retrospect.
Who would it be then
To impress?
They're too socially connected.
He is a very important man.
That's it, and popular.
The rest of us are connected to you.
What they have said for centuries,
Believing that it depends on the powers beyond and posterity,
In the world we live in
From beginning to after,
Depends on how things go for you.


"The Rest," poem twenty-one of "Lettersongs," unpublished work © 2008,
Lisa Page Weil.  All rights reserved.