you recognise him
by his black clothes,
his slow walk,
bent a little,
with a hurried look
which actually burns out
looking across you
across your mother
and... Across
the wall behind you!

The Wiseman
which educates
the beasts of the darkness,
the most feared guard of morality,
the last barrier
of justice
in a world hungry with corruption,
the last person
who would take bribery