The Spirit
of the Age
He who is ripe for great love said:
The world is one, governed by one phase,
Where a nation prospers another fades..
The sun of the east is married off
To the sea of the west
She gave him much of her flame..
He gave her of his humidity.
The time is partly this, partly that..
Don, t aim your nuclear arrows,
You dragon of the sea,
At the disk of the sun
She' s only a harbinger bearing
In its bosom the coming noon..
The fortune-teller of the ancient time
Prophesied that every newborn
Would kill its father and mother
Its mother through labour pains,
Its father through battle fens.
So why do you precipitate
Your inevitable doom?
The world is one governed by one sea:
Don' t put poison in your neighbours' stream..
Streams evaporate to fall
Poisoned rain on your fields,
Then pour in the universal sea..
The world is one governed by one law:
Don' t cut the hand of a little thief
Who stole when your hand had so long pointed paw.
Remember that the one justice leaves
Most people of the world
Without upper extremities..
The age is a monster, half side a monkey
Half side developed to a man..
It is partly a monkey, partly a man.
One circulatory system, one nervous net
So disfigured its shape
A limb of a man, the other of ape..
Its posterity are oddities
Especially in the middle wound
Where it gives birth to prodigies..
Apes climb the shoulders of men to divinity..
The Man who Hides the Stamp
I love the man who hides the stamp
Of awkward pregnancy
That men would not think it
The stamp of prophecy..
But Alas! The age lost truth
And modesty:
Many
a man insist
That his hunchback is a gift
Given him by Devine clemency,
A privileged chosen man..
Miracles are made by idolaters
To be themselves exalted with their idols,
Symbols of arrogance and impotence..
How many idols we have in this age,
And how little faith!
The faithful knows that the world is one,
Law of morality is one, law of God is one..
He searches for a new light
Discards the idols ' night..
Struggled Light and Darkness
For ever struggled light and darkness
At the turning of the times.
Man of the age who lacks perfectness
Is rotating in the human orbit,
Ambitious to turn what shameful, shapeless
What is ignoble in him into harmony..
How much I love you rebellious light
You ' re the spirit of the anxious age
Threatened by the star war,
Satiated with their might..
Don' t fear this cold war
Intended to draw you to despair..
It is illusion, meant to fight
Your longing spirit for change
While you are meant to soar,
You are meant for liberty, for more..
The crows sat wedding on your wounds,
Their piercing beaks deepen the wounds
Licking the liquid from your body
Draining life out your body..
Don' t fear crows rebellious light
Their angry wings shut the way
Beating the air to beat your sway..
But surely you penetrate from needles' eyes
To spread in the world your abundant light
Victory will be yours at end
Not in vain your breath you spend..
When light be the law
Tight relations be in thaw..
Don' t fear a hurrying train
Coming up to mountain top,
Its breath is exhausted
So the age has no strength nor power,
But loud its trumpet and fanfare
Carrying to nations its seven
Licentious devils, destruction desire and
civilization bier.
From the windows peeped,
Starvation, aids, drug addiction,
Debts, unemployment, stagnation
Brethren wars with inflation..
They roar as wild cats do
For more prey
Thinking of eternal sway
Knowing not that fuel's over
That they went astray..
A boisterous uproar is heard
Near an abyss.
An iron reptile is crawling
Over a magnetic line
Abandoned by its most faithful screws
Coming near the slippery way..
Nature is not fond of any creature,
Results alone that matter
This perfect computer commits no error..
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