# A Moral or Amoral Verse

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**Category:** Intergalactic Summit\
**Created:** [September 8, 2017, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-moral-or-amoral-verse/22853 "2017-09-08T06:46:29Z")\
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**The Black Song’s Flight**

_Lost in the heavens_  
_yet finding the way back home_  
_unfamiliar_  
_Down to earth, start the grounding_  
_land at the summit temple_

_Grease the doors. Open!_  
_Enter, inflexible still_  
_low tongue to high ears_  
_Many years listen patient_  
_to whistling, out of tune, false_

_High tongue to full ears_  
_notes sharp and deafening loud_  
_questioning value_  
_Discomposed, precipitous_  
_scampering back to silence!_

_The curious soul_  
_while mocking the Black Song’s flight_  
_inquires the pace_  
_“My optimum quality”_  
_the bird’s rueful rejoinder_

_The monk decides to_  
_task the songbird to race far_  
_return exhausted_  
_A conventional wisdom_  
_the conventual’s notion_

_Wingless, the Black Song_  
_runs five zeniths and five vales_  
_over grievous grounds_  
_The return is bittersweet_  
_vigor now very vanished_

_With blisters bleeding_  
_she crawls back to the abbot_  
_who demands candor_  
_The inflexible broken_  
_whole truth vacating the cracks_

_After reposing_  
_ears now clear, featherbrain void_  
_yet vim repossessed_  
_Hurts cared, nevertheless hurt_  
_serving as a reminder_

_Four masters sharing_  
_with open hands, mouth and mind_  
_tea, light, words and swords_  
_Grateful Black Song flits to sky_  
_now singing harmonious_

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