Run for your life! It's poetry time.

Run For Your Life It's Poetry Time

Whys and Wherefores of Whodoesery

The following is three versions of the same poem. The original version that was written beginning to end with no stopping, and no correcting. It seemed to say, if comprehensible at all, almost exactly the opposite of what I had intended, and that is why I decided to take time to think about it, and then rewrote it into the second version. This was what I wanted to say, but I then decided it would sound better if I changed the order of the lines. They are presented here in reverse order.

Whys and Wherefores of Whodoesery
(The final version)

When all considerations
Have finally reached the last.
The fault and blame is laid out
And all can see the past.

And all approved procedures
Have killed what chance there was.
You ask who builds the fences
We don't, but then who does.

Why can you all not see it
Some part of it at least.
If we do not appease them
Or give in to their beast.

Waiting in its hidden stance
Behind the birth of laws.
Then all will be protected
And none die at its claws.

- Jeff Huber (1995)

Whys and Wherefores of Whodoesery
(The second version)

When all considerations
Have finally reached the last.
And all approved procedures
Have killed what chance there was.

The fault and blame is laid out
And all can see the past.
You ask who builds the fences
We don't, but then who does.

Why can you all not see it
Some part of it at least.
Waiting in its hidden stance
Behind the birth of laws.

If we do not appease them
Or give in to their beast.
Then all will be protected
And none die at its claws.

- Jeff Huber (1995)

Whys and Wherefores of Whodoesery
(The original version)

When the considerations
Have attained their last.
And all approved procedures
Have removed the chance there was.

The fault and blame is laid
And all can see the truth.
It's now we build the fences
And watch for he who does.

Why can you all not see
Among those brought to us.
The simple in its hidden stance
Where for but not the laws.

If you would appease them
And tempt not their beast.
Then all would be protected
And none die at its claws.

- Jeff Huber (1995)