Sedition is Curved by Giles Pickford

The universe is curved and so is endless time.
The Earth’s road is curved and all creatures walk this way.
There is something in it which hates a dead straight line.
So nature’s lovely, curly, random shapes hold sway.

But there is one deadly straight unnatural force
Which shows its hatred for the universal curve.
Tyranny drives with great speed in a linear course,
Piercing the rib cage of freedom. It does not swerve.

Sedition bows humbly to unnatural power.
Appearing bent, recalcitrant, with curled lip; it would
Resist tyranny at every turn, hour by hour
Until the universal arc of all that’s good

Bends arrow, spear, sword, cannon, each linear thing
Into a rounder shape. Thus the great circle of time
Completes its perennial quest, eradicating
Cruelest tyranny, the most unnatural crime.