A Rare Someone

This is the only way,

I will be,

I will not change myself,

To manipulate through ,

A cruel world.

And then when you,

Confront me and tell me,

To change,

To not remain so good,

Lest I face harassment,

At hands of evil-

I will say with clouded eyes,

Yet a firm voice,

That the silent prayer,

Which escapes your lips;

That awe which you feel,

When you see one of those RARE SOMEONES,

Who is still brutally honest,

And unpolitical, innocent to a fault;

Those blessings,

Which arise in your heart,

Unconsciously;

Will help me survive,

Even in this callous, bitter, degrading world.....