The Inauguration


If such a man can make so much difference,
Why has it taken so long to find him?
Does time really move in a circumference
Filling the milk of kindness to the brim?

All the world's red ink will go tomorrow
Down River Jordan, so cool and handsome
Is the son of the Kilimanjaro 
With proverbs to pronounce for those who come.

What mandated governments can do
Depends on the hands moving to order
More than wearing for a time someone's shoe
Pretending to be busy and older,

The substantial aspects of leadership
Are about making plans for things to happen,
Choosing what to whip, what bad deals to skip,
And how to disarm atomic weapons.

On a frosty dawn he holds the mantle
Full of good intentions and all the rest.
Promising to be tough and yet gentle,
A philosopher king begins the test.

Bevagna, 20 1 2009