Poetry Corner: One But Many

One right answer,
One right answer?
There are many lusts,
But the worst is this:
A lust for certitude
In a world of splendor.

Being right can be wrong,
When closing off another.
Why the claim of correct
than a trust in beauty;
The pruning of blossoms
For a bloom that is best?

When nature’s analogy
Would shame the holder
Of such a cruel blade,
Clipped flowers for the fiction
Of a puny world and tiny god;
The proposition of a lonely win.

One right answer,
One right answer?
There are many lusts,
But the worst is this:
A lust for certitude
In a world of splendor.

- Philip Carr-Jones