DEFIANCEYou spoke in biblical flourishes,
assailed others with a rhetoric
deadlier than the barrel of a gun.
When you pulled the trigger,
your power overwhelmed
what lesser men most fear —
the death of all and everything.
Such misery as yours remains
untold in diaries you kept.
What secrets were you hiding?
What shamed you so? What
failure was too sere? Yet you
sailed on through — defiant
and untouched — without a care.jh
