Rule: Who Does It Best?
by Seah Greenhorn
(Poem with copyright)
Ah!
Government...
Who's Right to Rule?
The Fight:
"For the People.
By the People."
Is that what we see;
as many a flag flutters
under our Creator's
soothing breeze?
Yet,
so often
marches
under trumpeting horns
led by warring ideologies
warn:
The battle will continue for
Sovereignties
dead
or about to be born.
What will it take?
Already,
in the past century,
about 100,000,000
people
died in war's casualties
alone.
Not talking about the internal anger
on mankind's streets
this does make.
How many more lives
are at stake?
Have not every nation
made it's share of mistakes?
What about Jeremiah's words under Holy Spirit spoken?
"I well know, O Jehovah,
that man’s way does not belong to him.
It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."
Were these a foregleam of more kingdoms
broken?
The tide rises.
Then again...recedes.
Yet, mounting
the bodies
swept ashore
drowned
in turbulent seas.
What King or Queen Sovereign
will put us at ease?
Rule by the wealthy--Plutocracy?
Can they fill everyone's needs?
The ideas keep coming
like ants on a hill.
But muddy boots keep on trampling,
though they stalwartly build.
Such valiant efforts,
but really in vain.
Since the power they nourish,
it falters, not flourishes,
during thundering reigns.
The plains left scattered
with our youthful remains.
The clock
it keeps ticking
The earth?
Still in spin.
When will we realize,
this struggle will end?
JUST
Not
under man's
Sovereignty.
Theocracy
WIll Win!
Government...
Who's Right to Rule?
The Fight:
"For the People.
By the People."
Is that what we see;
as many a flag flutters
under our Creator's
soothing breeze?
Yet,
so often
marches
under trumpeting horns
led by warring ideologies
warn:
The battle will continue for
Sovereignties
dead
or about to be born.
What will it take?
Already,
in the past century,
about 100,000,000
people
died in war's casualties
alone.
Not talking about the internal anger
on mankind's streets
this does make.
How many more lives
are at stake?
Have not every nation
made it's share of mistakes?
What about Jeremiah's words under Holy Spirit spoken?
"I well know, O Jehovah,
that man’s way does not belong to him.
It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."
Were these a foregleam of more kingdoms
broken?
The tide rises.
Then again...recedes.
Yet, mounting
the bodies
swept ashore
drowned
in turbulent seas.
What King or Queen Sovereign
will put us at ease?
Rule by the wealthy--Plutocracy?
Can they fill everyone's needs?
The ideas keep coming
like ants on a hill.
But muddy boots keep on trampling,
though they stalwartly build.
Such valiant efforts,
but really in vain.
Since the power they nourish,
it falters, not flourishes,
during thundering reigns.
The plains left scattered
with our youthful remains.
The clock
it keeps ticking
The earth?
Still in spin.
When will we realize,
this struggle will end?
JUST
Not
under man's
Sovereignty.
Theocracy
WIll Win!
The following mentioned because God's Kingdom cannot be purchased by monetary means. Actions are necessary too. "Jesus looked at him and said: “How difficult it will be for those having money to make their way into the Kingdom of God! It is easier, in fact, for a camel to get through the eye of a sewing needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.”" Luke 18:24, 25.
Plutocracy and the image are the theme and the prompt. You don't have to use the word or the image just stay on the topic.
Noun: plutocracy (plural plutocracies) Government by the wealthy. A controlling class of the wealthy. Quotation 1933 — G. K. Chesterton, All I Survey, Essay XXIII: On Industrialism Modernity is not democracy; machinery is not democracy; the surrender of everything to trade and commerce is not democracy. Capitalism is not democracy; and is admittedly, by trend and savour, rather against democracy. Plutocracy by definition is not democracy. But all these modern things forced themselves into the world at about the time, or shortly after the time, when great idealists like Rousseau and Jefferson happened to have been thinking about the democratic ideal of democracy.
Tips: Be poetic, write something interesting, well informed, subtle, humourous, satirical, belligerent or profound, but do try to create a well crafted poem, free verse or rhymed. Don't just write a speech!
hope
Plutocracy and the image are the theme and the prompt. You don't have to use the word or the image just stay on the topic.
Noun: plutocracy (plural plutocracies) Government by the wealthy. A controlling class of the wealthy. Quotation 1933 — G. K. Chesterton, All I Survey, Essay XXIII: On Industrialism Modernity is not democracy; machinery is not democracy; the surrender of everything to trade and commerce is not democracy. Capitalism is not democracy; and is admittedly, by trend and savour, rather against democracy. Plutocracy by definition is not democracy. But all these modern things forced themselves into the world at about the time, or shortly after the time, when great idealists like Rousseau and Jefferson happened to have been thinking about the democratic ideal of democracy.
Tips: Be poetic, write something interesting, well informed, subtle, humourous, satirical, belligerent or profound, but do try to create a well crafted poem, free verse or rhymed. Don't just write a speech!
hope
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