The Garden

a poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

Now that the Titans are about to clash
a dark shadow hangs about the valley of life
it’s time to tend every garden and plots of land.
Weed out lies, cant and the poisonous plant called Half Truth.
It can kill the biggest tree
and lay waste a wheat field
and make a forest of spruce sink into apathy.
Let us all be gardeners,
prune and weed
so that the rose of truth can be seen.