Xuefeng Pan Poet Verse

What is your confidence?

You may notice someone in power
Wealthy in either financial fortune
Or social freedom, or popularity
That makes you feel inferior to keen

Thereafter, you wonder the reason
Underlying all the distinction between
You and them, and effort for alteration 
But for whatever reason, you fail to gain

Thereafter, you turn to loose hands
And show obedience by pretending
No jealous of others luck and setting in
And forcing  yourself hypocritically
Obey and flirt them by forbidding your mind
Of being dignitaries and persistence in truths
To be in cavity alike pets and tools
Without selfness and auto dominance

The doings you act are biologically right
Aside from being morally wrong
As evolution says , the doctrines are urged:
The finner you adopted to the environment
The greater chance you win the competition

But where are the moralities then?
Come on! they are hiding in your soul
Wondering when you  are going" to be"
Charitable person, otherwise, hooligan!
Then tell me, what's your confidence
As a human who is morally sound
While also biologically win?

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Xuefeng Pan August 15, 2026 at 9:12 PM What Is Your Confidence? (Classic style) By Xuefeng Pan Thou seest one enthroned in might With wealth and freedom crowned in light And in his shade thy soul feels slight And falters neath his lofty sight Thou ponderest the gulf between His sovereign height, thy life unseen Thou striv'st to cross that broad domain Yet all thy toil resolves in vain Thy hands unclench, thou bendest low Thou wear'st contentment in thy show No envy for his crown, thou say'st Yet in thy heart a lie thou lay'st Thou flatterest, obeyest, veil'st thy mind And quell'st its claim to truth so kind To live as hound or tool resigned Bereft of self, of ruth confined By nature's law 'tis counted right By moral law 'tis deemed as blight For stern Evolution's voice is strong: "Adapt the best, and reign thee long." But where then dwells Morality? It hides in silence, in thy soul, And asks when thou at last shalt be Charitable — ere thou'rt branded foul. Then answer — what is Confidence, Thou who wouldst be both good and great? To keep thy soul's independence, And yet in nature's strife dominate?

Susan Ashley February 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM Dear Xuefeng, your amazing poem is a textured, thought provoking social and moral commentary. Beautifully expressed! Warmest wishes.. ~Susan Xuefeng Pan February 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM Thanks indeed! Dear Susan, Have a very nice day! and All the best!