Man, Victim of His Own Success

 

Man, victim of his own success, must fast grasp opportunity

to offer all equality of chances and advances stress

as the ability to press for rights for disability

the strong ignore, or fail to bless.

 

Man, victim of his own success, does not deserve impunity

when biosphere supportive he still stifles in the name of, - guess, -

‘Democracy’, free-choice oppress through ways of ta(l)king liberty

as only freedom to repress.

 

Man, victim of his own success, - tale’s pun, - few marks of modesty

retains, yet with anxiety observes galactic game of chess

while most Earth’s problems won’t address.  This manifest dichotomy

highlights concerns we should assess.

 

Man, victim of his own success, needs to transcend his history

predative, channel energy towards solutions which suppress

his immaturity, redress the balance of society,

extend awareness free from stress.

 

Man, victim of his own success, must sail beyond tsunami he

created to a safer sea where winds of change may not express

a whirlwind strange that all confess none can control. Society

must change or soon will sink, regress.

 

Man, victim of his own success, must map return to sanity,

respect with assiduity the planet’s need to convalesce,

create conditions which attest acceptance by humanity

of overview which won’t aggress.

 

Man, victim of his own success, must understand ecology

requires intrinsic harmony, may join “I wish”  to “I possess”

providing much more, - never less, - is harvested with equity,

without the urge to dispossess.

 

Man, victim of his own success should heed the lessons most agree

accompany pride’s apogee, and not attempt to second guess

the seasons’ reasons or finesse.  Where just fat few progress we see

misuse far more than maladdresse.

 

Man, victim of his own success, beyond base skills of repartee,

should take time off from Time to key into distortions which transgress

ideals which should not ever stress the views of tight community

or vested interests.  Nonetheless, -

 

Man, victim of his own success, must meet the challenges that he

has catalyzed - calamity around the corner waits unless

he acts -  declines to acquiesque with urbane equanimity, -

protects his progeny’s success…

 

Which, victim of its own success, may stray from birthright destiny

to cul-de-sac of history, through compromise, increase distress

or narrow hopes where scope could press for change proactive, remedy

renewed temptations to digress through need to influence, impress,

the generations yet to be, compress its chances - tragedy

whose risks too high remain as we depict the options which depress

the outlook for our century.

 

 

10 October 1992, 10 October 2005, 3 October 2006  See previous version

 

 

 

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Victim of his own Success

 

 

Man, victim of his own success,

must overcome his history.

The biosphere supportive he

stifles in the name of, - guess, -

Democracy -  free-choice progress -

A pun where some take liberty

as freedom only to repress.

 

Man, victim of his own success

must sail beyond tsunami he

created to a safer sea

where winds of change do not express

a whirlwind strange which all confess

none can control. Society

must change or soon will sink, regress !

 

10 October 1992