'blood' Brothers Or 'Bloody' Brothers Under the Banner - Parts 3 To 5

III What shame if might measures not with muscle? What disgrace awaits those who fail? Should wanting life be held lèse-majesté to a tussle? Should a nation thrive as in a sundered jail? To the high nor low slams the door To him who seeks the Law and more. Take, take the Golden Mean road! Truth your only key, never the sword! Decades from now sawn men will in right ask: Had we then no will to attend to our wounds? Should not the White Master be called back to task To bear the burden of our graveyard mounds? What guidance should wise men need More than their own tested counsels? Lay, lay aside the pride of higher breed Like two strong men upright in councils! IV People are made to feel their lives rendered great By what their leaders do to invoke fate; Destiny asks not who may stand in as its fated mate, When all around lives are lost through hate. To the high nor low slams the door To him who seeks the Law and more. Take, take the Golden Mean way! Truth the only key, no, never slay! If the Lion strays from its prescribed domain, The Tiger will seek to sink its fangs in flanks. Two kings bide their time in a land full of bane, While the common folk lie razed by tanks. V Seek not to replace life with conundrums. Seek only a life-giving solution. Herald not the arrival of the enemy with drums. Let only your heart speak in absolution. The mountain cannot reach up to the sky. The lake at the summit is full. If monsoons come, calling cranes will cry. Kindred spirits will rally in full. To the high nor low slams the door To him who seeks the Law and more. Take, take the Golden Mean way! Truth the only key, no, never ever slay! Can a people simply grow strong in broken places While strong men before the hour vacate places? “Man can be destroyed but not defeated. Man can be defeated but not destroyed.” © T.Wignesan 2005 - September 21, 2005- (from the Sequence: "Words for a Lost Sub-Continent", Paris, France. Pub. in Rama and Ravana at the Altar of Hanuman: on Tamils, Tamil Literature and Tamil Culture. Chennai: Institute of Asian Studies, 2006.)