Leadership can make leader crazy
roots of power often ignored
yet power given, grabbed, thrust
people are the roots and the blood
People’s voices is the voice of God
that echoes though community mouth
when they cry, God cries with them
when they rejoice, God rejoices too
Virtues are stored in stomach of tradition
long tested, tried and trusted they are
justice broods in people’s cheeks
Choice of a virtuous leader is a virtue
that colonizes people’s hearts
Orator is good but may not be virtuous
strong man may be good but not virtuous
but man of virtue though not strong,
or an orator or intelligent or less exposed
is best gift for the people
Categories:
colonizes, metaphor, philosophy, power,
Form: Free verse
We are the children of the rim
Where white gulls over blue Atlantic sing
Interruptions that memories skim
Across the face of altered maps for wing
One feather to lift us again, high
Empire in shambles in the callous flow
Of sands. We demand without lie
A stake in this economy that you grow
On our backs shackled and coffleless
Marginalized 'fore a muted witness
It is time for restitution
It is time for moral ablution
And we, children of the rim
This is our international hymn.
So we come to this table
Fully disagreable
With the with status quo and flow
Of global garbling and slow
Melt down of our life
Across the spiring babel of all strife.
We are the children of the rim
It is your turn to meet us now
Against your propspects and dim
Sunset that cannot know
This consideration colonizes our negotiation
And is your last hope to learn redemption.
Categories:
colonizes, politicalchildren, children, time,
Form: Verse