The Mind in Society

Our individual & Social Natures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Out of chaos was born the royal idea

That one man would rule supported by another.

To make of one man the embodiment

Of the self of all in the continent.

 

A life that's lived for the sake of the community

One people, one nation under God almighty.

Embedded in the personality of the one who rules

A role model was he, of the life and mind that's cool.

 

Persuaded us of loyalty and devotion

Perhaps even hinted at a life of consecration.

Suggested that duty and beauty will to life behold

An adoration, of the one as world and the world as one.

 

In the book of kings, it came to revelation

How the mind of the one is lived in adroit fashion.

Duty to the state for our gregarious' sake

Beauty for the harmony we help to cultivate.

 

When the mind is thus felt by all

It gave way to democracy's call.

The son of the soil now returned

To such simplicity, as a life reborn.

 

The mind, still the root of our happiness

Has all to command within its facetiousness.

Works to create and is adulated to achieve

His own master, in the realms of his desire.

Reviews

[Chris]

Sri,

I liked the twisted ferver. Who determins royalty? What IS real power? and who holds it? I listened to this one several times.

Chris

[An owl on the moon]

Yes, you speak into our lone existence and our communal life... at once alone and intricately woven into the fabric of society as well... led and leading... Powerfully shared, my friend.

[Muse]

I had to read this twice. The message I believe is a spiritual one?
You wrote:
It gave way to democracy's call.

The son of the soil now returned

Are we not being governed by "His own master, in the realms of his desire."

Would this be the Ant-Christ you speak of?

Forgive me if I'm not understanding your poem correctly, it was very well written.