Subversive ideas dropped from your forked tongue

Impromptu rallies where grew your theatrical tirade

Indignation teased by quiet assertions

Into a harangue exciting my bigotry

Then up close in conversation

Your charismatic consideration

Held in thrall

Unchecked affection

To monopolise your attention

In your sun I should reflect your goodness

And take some measure of honour for myself

With what pain I win neglect

Suffering your whim stray to better prospects

Grief and shame

Condemned as suspect

Irreconcilable moral defect

My zeal for the cause and for your esteem

With reckless belligerence, turned murderous

After the event your deceit betrayed

Self-aggrandisement couched in noble disinterest

You prey on the witless and on the conceited

I recoil with disgust arraigned by my vanity