Text of poem - The Witness. And I, Thomas, saw the decline To evil. The old, bad ways Were re-learned. Men hired their Consciences; women grew hard, shrill. Nature had lost the ability To delight. Beauty was that which The eye, trained in money's aesthetic Sanctioned. Truth was a failure Of nerve. Meanwhile the earth turned From the light. The dark was the Darkness of the crucifixion Of love's body on a steel tree.

‘The Witness’ - #RSThomas
(Decal Poetry Review 1.1, 1972)
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