What Is Good?

What is safe? What is fair?
What is right? What we say

When you use us, that’s all,
And if you all used us

The same way, what we say
Would be as real to you

As what the world won’t say,
But you don’t. You use us,

But you don’t know. You fight,
And you fling us like stones,

And what we’ve learned from this,
If not from you, is that

What we say is not what
We are, not what you mean

By us, not safe, not fair,
Not at all good, not right.