Constant Doubt

Critical thinking necessitates doubt in our values and traditions

In all the history of knowledge, of human discovery
exists none more holy
than principle doubt in society
and its cherished values of purity

Yesterday's treasured tradition passed down
is today's dirt, black and brown
Even yesteryear's shame transforms
contemporary cutthroats into lords of renown

Prophets who scream plagiarisms and philosophy
into pagan deserts, vast and dreary,
exposed by unveiled queens to be
charismatic charlatans, clever or crazy

Poets and freethinkers, with legacies crowned
as salacious sodomites, drunken and loud;
their ghosts now frown
at posthumous hero's shroud