Optimist Or Pessimist
Time and fate have mocked us all,
be we great or be we small.
The same temptations Jesus thwarted
the Church, I fear, has ofttimes courted.
Luther preached before the throne:
"The just shall live by faith alone."
Yet ""freedom" in a peasant's ears
filled great lords with dread and fears.
"Workers, unite!" was Karl Marx's plea.
The aftermath is plain to see.
A pacifist brought forth the bomb,
a paradox God save us from.
Man's fate, which lies beyond our ken,
must be:
(for optimists:) to fail and strive again.
(for pessimists:) to strive and fail again.
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