Today’s Hazards Are Tomorrow’s Turns of Phrase

The wolves in shepherd’s clothing
Are the ones should worry you
Lambs. Sadly, you all grow up

To play at being shepherds,
And then some of you transform
Into wolves with shepherds’ crooks,

And where is this foolishness
Going, really, anyway?
Can’t you see all metaphors

Become cautionary tales,
And all proverbs hold nonsense
In their core comparisons?

There is no comparison
Won’t break down on inspection,
No bond between any phrase

And the world outside of words,
And this goes for numbers, too,
The beautiful equations

That you follow willingly,
Hopefully, content to graze
Wherever culture leads you.