responsibility

A view of the community

viewed by party -

seeing differently the path ahead

yet unable to see commonality

of purpose.

You are unyielding as stone

and will decay with the weathering

in storms of your own making.

Do not mistake popularity with mandate

for you are only popular for the day.

Responsibility is your judge

and the sentence

will be juried

by those you disrespect.

'The truth is out there'

your obligation is to search it out

not decree it, enacting discrimination,

nor hide it in smoke and mirrors,

nor rearrange its molecules

into soft bedding

for the easily led.