Shoring Up the World

the pit-men painters
illuminated canvas
light from their mind’s eye

if we fill earth’s chasms
with a scaffolding of ideas
we can shore up the world

we can write all wrongs
with instruments, voices, songs
drown out despair

with words as props, spread
hope, so the sky won’t fall on
our poor little heads

a temporary fix
few folk listen to poets
lots follow the fox

yet each point of light
every act of creation
dispels a darkness

keep your torch alight
even the smallest spark
makes the whole world bright