To the Moral High Ground

You ask, where to and what do I mean?
Onwards to the moral high ground, of course!
A place that is innocuous, circumspect and clean
to the touch, to a show of force.
Onwards, to a place where hygiene is sanity
and infected thoughts are dangerous,
where doubt is only vanity
and new desires condemned, expeditious.

You ask, rightly, but what could be a sadder ending?
Nothing is sadder than the moral high ground, of course!
But to choose otherwise is to be defending
the lonely road on an unbridled horse.
So onwards, to a place where everything is good and right.
Without the frightening whims
of an earnestly coveted night;
Of wonderful passions but horribly hurtful sins.

C. Goodwin