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ARTISTRY OF MARILYNN LEA STARK
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Freedom Source . . . Part III
By Marilynn Lea Stark An
epic poem for the people All
Rights Reserved; © 19 No
part or parts of this poem may be reproduced without the author's permission.
James
lovingly welcomed me and took me to cabin for shelter, Telling
me so kindly when my Beloved would return; There
I went into prayer to Kali to
avoid the welter, To
recover from hitchhiker's long journey, and for Swamiji's own welcome to yearn. (183) After
two and a half days of total meditation, and upon sight of Swamiji once or twice
in passing, I
emerged bravely to find food and people, to see of what I could learn; Thus
began my inclusion at Sandeepany, which became mine for truth's asking; And
it was there that our love for one another gave my chances for survival
Swamiji's brave, heroic turn. (184) For
this ancient tradition of metaphysics was new to America then, And
important people who had overseen the property purchase were deluded, Since
they felt a sense of ownership and authority way beyond their ken; Thus
did they challenge Swamijij's reunion with me, whom they wrongly excluded. (185) Proper
surrender to a self-realized yogi and
devoted teacher, Who
establishes a school to teach those equipped with receptive attributes, Would
allow the decision of selection of students to be God's entrusted feature Of
the way, the wonder, the oneness of the school, no matter who contributes. (186) This
is in keeping with the sacred tradition of parampa, Whereby
great teachers seek the most brilliant to teach, Hoping
to find if but one who will break out of samsara; And
it thus keeps political man out of encloistered, spiritual reach. (187) But
the American ignorance of proper reverence for wisdom Caused
this balance of knowledge and vision to be overturned; And
Swamiji's very freedom to choose me for his little kingdom, Transplanted
now like a rare seed, was along with my personal freedom, dangerously burned. (188) Nevertheless,
my Beloved courted me, and set forth a lesson for me while I was there; He
honored my previously spoken and written plan to heroically save my father, And
he told me simply to go to him, even if I could not offer him ultimate care; I
took courage at that, and daily prayed for that day to become God's savior
daughter. (189) Think
how profound Swamiji's lesson to me regarding my savior mission of my father; For
when the moment was ripe to keep Leigh from his grave, did his heroic daughter
answer; Yet,
Swamiji could not even offer me an open-ended welcome, for the Board of Managers
that topic did bother, Making
my chances for that glorious retreat, holy company and prayer all the scarcer. (190) We
staged, therefore, several mock departures, whereby I should leave the school, And
then Swamiji would call me back, saying I should stay a longer while; This
satisfied the political vultures each time, as they so openly broke the sacred
rule Of
Swamiji's reverent authority over his inner circle, yet I, destined to
with him walk the marriage aisle. (191) Oh,
my husband, the love of my life, The
one who saw me and saved me above all challenge; For
years now set apart, your loving wife, Yet
barely can we win the place for out heart's love to avenge. (192) Why
should the love between a man and a lady cause conflict to disorder the day? Wherefore
the concept of avenge, for the loving hearts of nature alone do sound the
chorus, The
primeval destiny of married life together, is the gift of God, all prophets do
say; Since
it has been the spoils of a war that have kept us apart, no matter our love so
glorious. (194) No
more is love honored, it seems; what poets of old call 'true love'--where to? How
angry, bitter and calculating such awesome enmity for our ordained betrothal; Yet,
for your love, your hand in marriage, I conquered on foot, a penniless sadhu;
Would
a wayward police state elevate instead of a chaste lady, an outlaw nation, to so
engender some socio-political brothel? (195) Yes;
what concern for two good and generous people, whose mythical love For
one another had saved the nation's oldest founding nobility by family; No
heart for us, of the greatest heart, guided only by God above, We
weathered the pain upon us so inflicted, as yet some duty-bound homily. (196) This
is the very nature of incipient war, where freedom of the individual falls to
mean contract; And
the more statuesque that individual, as I in the arts and sciences broadly
inclusive, Leaving
aside metaphysics and that warrior art so sacred--the more deflected the nation
off track; While
a few controllers collect their brutal spoils aplenty, rendering general regard
for my virtue quite evasive. (197) For
then, who can regard this lady supreme, thrown off by some conspiratorial remand
To
a land abject now to one willing to die for her principles, for her country, for
the hope of mankind? Just
who can regard her for her one-pointedness of mind and purpose, seen by her as
God's moving, majesty's hand, If
her political voice and platform had become some street-bound hunger cry to those
so unnecessarily unkind? (198) Yes,
this is the crux of knowing the self, the way defined strictly by surrender
lovingly to the Maker, Whereby
no matter the immediate political ponder and place, that vision transcendent
obtends and saves; Saves
in and through all, an endless ocean of bliss, turning each attack into a gift
made all so much greater, For
God hides in His master design, and through such invisible victory He on this
Earth the way for the righteous paves. (199) Freedom
source is freedom found each time referential to the self, the individual
rebounds From
corrupted power ploy designed to overthrow the place of mastery by truthful
deed; This
moment so majestic in its worth, so universal its power, throughout the nation
resounds Its
awesome call to all the people: that freedom source for that one becomes for all
freedom's planted seed. (200) The
beggar of the question of the truth of my awesome deed, No
such inquirer dares sound the torch to scorch my path; Yet
all planned actions by massive political, monied creed Serve
that hope to refute to my face with dishonesty's lie such contract. (201) And
those lost in the bargain, left out to surmise, To
draw their conclusions by studied eye, Cannot
remove from sight their heartfelt surprise That
one such as I of noble birth could ever to freedom die. (202) One
giant puzzle wandering around to them it seems, 'Is
she looking for some crumb of the way, the truth for me to her give?' Assuming
superior knowledge for aught as their large coin gleams, Do
they by refusing my feat of metaphysics refuse me also some beggar's tithe? (203) Yes;
'For how could so many be wrong and one such as she be right?' They
reason with themselves in justification of their decision to now join, Join
the one down the street who told of a way to earn money of might, If
only to strip her of a little freedom, which would never equal a spare coin. (204) Thus
condemn her patriotic duty and patronizing promise, Who
should pretend to such glorious heights from a wandering quarter, Poor
fool; 'If renounced of all she says, then let her now renounce the premise That
I should support her with a crumb or drop of cleaning water.' (205)
This
widespread fantasy that I could by years of open, proven deed, Tell
a lie so huge that it could not speak itself seen or unseen, My
friends, no such lie on Earth exists, search no further yourselves to me feed; For
the profound truth as I know it: God alone sustains and saves me by reprieve. (206) He
only reprieves what man has to me done in the sphere political, Yet
He is also 'that,' and you may parrot-like echo that fact; But
I am the one who stands before you and reduces the mythical To
practical life in the proof most down-to-earth of that truth in all that I act. (207) This
by no choice, but as way of survival in all contention
Designed
in God's exercise to teach others besides myself; May
you follow your heart and find detachment, and good intention, For
four quarters do a dollar make in all calculations your doubt places on the
shelf. (208)
And
this simple summation adds up then again to zero, Once
the meal is realized and on to the next act of devotion; For
this is the equation of the sadhu, the
self-realized American hero, Who
renounces the feminine derivative in this man's world filled with man's history
notion. (209) Suppose,
that equation yet equals one, since we do live together in a physical sphere, Where
expectations of country, of courtesy, of comfort, of assured destiny, Do
impinge by the nature of things in a metaphysician's honesty so sheer-- Thus
transcendent, one of unity's dollars certainly solves my hunger over misplaced
blasphemy, does it not? (210) I
ask you to review for yourself these simple lessons in Truth made apparent Perhaps
in my unusual quest for this, my recognition of my right to continued life; It
can only come to you in this split second passing, even if aberrant, Wherein I
entreaty your giving a donor's hand against mad torturers' collective cruelty to me
so rife. (211) Thus in
all your seemingly high thinking I beckon you back to the depth
of your heart, And
if you love your country as you to yourself say you do, if you
say it daily at all; Why
yet judge my grand purpose and declared mission which an outstretched hand
does impart, For now
stay close in time--I may be asking after all for you to
vote in my future presidential call. (212) Oh!
Miracles galore, have you heard of them, in proof of my motive so
noble and total? No.
That is easy for me to say, yet impossible to prove with would-be leaders
calling me a liar, With
each face to which I humble myself in position of the asking, for their
outlook to me fatal, Would
I dare cause you further turmoil with mythical, magical jumble and gyre? (213) All
I ever did was surrender to God so totally while on Earth, And
I found His mercy to my odd plight as bounteous as any ocean; Now
you may find my persuasion vicarious beyond your own self
worth-- Then
you have placed your concept of God as a drop to puddle in
motion. (214)
For
this do I then suffer, and endlessly toil, not able for you in your
ignorance to openly gainsay; The
more I say, the more you would doubt me, thinking then even less of what little
I had you shown; For
I speak by action. by deeds in truth noble, is all I could ever pretend,
sincerely, I pray; I
pray that you remember what little I had taught you, for it taught me what God
had for you sown. (215) Wait!
Maybe oh maybe, just one more second on this street in
passing, a glint of the eye, Just
within our reach, could tell the days of the ways I
have gone for you in my heart as teacher; For I
am first your student, you stand before me God yourself,
'You are that,' I now espy, With
that humble asseveration between us, could I heal your desire
for life's improved feature? (216) Upon
referral to the giver of freedom's fount, For
proper moment and providential direction close, I
find the answer to my quest for your particular puzzle to count As
among those the Maker would solve through my agency recluse. (217) Now
if you apperceive after the giving of such God's gift direct, My
intimacy of understanding of power, not for its owner, But
for its essential effect as disposed from hypostacy's proven effect; Then
do I really cower to broad, evil, even pernicious, age-old conspirator's concept
of power contract? (218) VII. Oh,
brave people, whose quest so dear to me, For
the truth of the way and the deed; the purpose so dire, That
mankind itself must connoiter and seek, Even
beyond the individual's world encounter; as if God Himself would conspire. (219) Just
how can I answer you in space of time so niggardly, Across
these small pages wherein my heart does pour the truth of God; When
just to know God, to devotedly pursue truth thus for years so doggedly, Takes
more than church; no temple with holy ritual for ritual to but laud. (220) Especially
does the mind query, I understand, indeed falter, then boggle In
this Nuclear Age of man; when doomsayers meet and rudely calculate The
precise advantage, and how many times over with mere switch toggle, Another
nation to ashes can be made--then with treaties do they morbidly for us this
illustrate. (221) War
thus described and applied to indoctrinate in the abstract Among
the peoples of all the world, takes no soldiers afoot; No
commanders are needed to strategize the field, to know the fact Of
the future as by considered likelihood, just where some enemy an attack might
put. (222) Indeed,
no sides exist anymore, nobody can make a single move; For
if but one nuclear attack were to occur, Both
sides would go under; thus war to nuclear man only suicide does prove, And
somewhere in the middle of the dark madness, man sits and awaits the political
question of war to recur. (223) The
conclusion abroad for all mankind here to thus ponder, Rests
in the dilemma of stalemated politics never again to be resolved in war; Mankind
has instead split his own warring nature asunder, Lest
the Nuclear Dragon reduce his destructive self-defense into Pyrrhic victory's
anonymous roar. (224) Now
I tell you my people as gently as I might, in honesty's hold I speak you truth; That
I have fought the real battle in this day of annihilation's nuclear threat, I
have fought that battle, the battle for freedom, where an individual's quest
became thus moot; And
I fought to marry, to live, to pray, for family, for nation--for you; so do not
you my people fret. (225) I
claim this supremacy outright with audacity's tenor, Yet
mere words cannot for you great war's threat thus pardon; Since
it is the technological age paradoxically of convenience's demeanor, You
may wrongly view my condition as one justly expulsed from your
garden. (226)
Yet
I ask you to listen further, just beyond your doubt, If
you believe in my courage, strength, and piety; For
my moment and place to this speak, itself truth's clout-- Just
how could you in your fast-speed seat, conduct yourself with impropriety? (227) My
power of persusasion upon your ears, to which I defer and then must rely, For
I know in my heart's heart I will soon win you with me to this truth's
confrontational task; That
power derives from magnanimous deed, across years' collective does imply, A
place for me to gather your hearts, not only win you to your day for me my
leadership you to ask. (228) Now
you may have asked me outright, the nature of mankind's mission and real
purpose, Juxtaposed
to ' I ', the metaphysics an individual aspires to know, to realize; Allow
me to carefully this explicate, yes; my caveat to you is that darker threat
which lurches, Just
waiting to destroy your inquisitiveness, whilst your most joyful view it tries. (229) Yet
the self-realized one recants in words so beauteous, Extols
the perfection essential of that happiness self supreme; Well
then, if to ashes the Mother Earth cries but for logic now spurious, What
good any one-point individual's metaphysical, happiness dream? (230) And
this is why you broached the question of the individual self interfaced to all
of mankind, Is
it not? Who dare seek self-realization replete? For now insanity
sits in the driver's seat, And
hapless the approach to God's thund'rous roar, no happy answer will anybody
find; Thus
you challenge me to sum up for you presciently this prodigious enlightenment
feat. (231) I recognize
that, truly I do, and I pray to but fill your urge to know; For
those who have with the Nuclear Dragon's tongue whipped your minds for
decades three Have
no sympathy in harmony with you, would only you doomsday show; This
is also the wherefore of my elaborate begging of you to the very question you
yourself see. (232) For
if you live the fear they would steadily more in you incultate so coldly, Not
only will my answers send you back to them for more, Since
they have ruled your minds now for so long, so boldly; But
also, leadership alone cannot save the world: all the peoples must be called to
the nuclear fore. (233) This
was my long and implicit mission on this great nation's street, Whereupon
my freedom to fight hunger's encroachment Became
great bargaining chip among Super Powers to meet And
decide whether it was time for me my Beloved to marry, that wrong dialectical
enforcement. (234) Thus
those world leaders held us in our Betrothal to the mysterious question nuclear, For
it was the only way they could agree on anything at all in the way of talk; Just
as their intelligence security relies upon watching all nuclear arsenals out of
fear, Did
they watch me wander and sing wond'rous phrases, as I commanded that long,
presidential nuclear walk. (235) I
commanded it for you, my people, hoping to set for freedom great legal
precedent; This
was my vision, my mission, and stated purpose as I selflessly for freedom
fought; But freedom
for me became a matter of sheer survival, guided by that distant job of
president; Yes,
it was for you from my expansive heart; yet my freedom was in the nuclear threat
clearly caught. (236) I
was thwarted at every turn, no matter for shelter or job did I beg and apply; Certain
criminals rank hired the police to deseat me, to keep me afloat on the streets a
beggar. And
this is how I became a prisoner-of-state, for no legal rights could I beg or
apply, No,
an international cabal funded this war, thus assaulted therein your Constitution
with deadly dagger. (237) One
Super Power macher after another called me crazy so as to hide my proven
sainthood; For
they claimed my father was dead while I lived that false death sentence they in
war had sighed, Yet
they knew all along he was in political asylum in Canada; thus they my freedom
would Reduce
to ashes, whilst singing their deadly durge-like nuclear war song to me thus
applied. (238) Whilst
held to the fore of this total vacuum of human rights they cruelly upon me thus
put, They
relished my hardships and the great paradox I lived out, from hero to simple
beggar-- And
they stole my spoken insights, they thought, my patriotic mission I lived on
foot; I,
the sequestered leader, whose caliber and vision none of them could meet in
comparative rigor. (239) Now
to my father alone I speak most succinctly, for I saved your life but for those
selfish machers to you hide? And
torture me? I love you more as these years of war have kept us apart, my
prayers for you grow deeper. Had
you died for lack of faith in me, in God through me, I would have followed
death's tide, In
this great, long war; no other man could have rescued my heart, and preserved me
for the heroic job of America's freedom keeper. (240) Now
this may console you, or it may not, nor can we ever recover the years aghast,
the ghost of war; For
neither of us could have fought so gloriously, had we known how niggardly those
machers' views, Who
could care not at all for heroic deed and the way we fought to silence that
mythical, warring death roar; They
are not our equals, we have suffered this agelike separation with no compassion
from others, who fell easily to some gimmick, some ruse. (241) Now
you, my people, may not even know how greatly you in your hearts do for me and
my great father grieve; You
may go along with this decade's decree by that false prophet named Reagan who
kept us apart so easily, Since
the monetary side of the cabal ruled that convenience way beyond our heroic
war's victory reprieve; You,
my people, have honored all along the very president who smashed our great
victory in America's face so busily. (242) Yet
he appeared to be doing not much, barely aware of events which took place on a
given day; While
in office he conducted rituals, fashions and written speeches, even
imitated Leigh's manner; Reagan
sold America's dollar to foreign nations in turn for any meaningful say Over
the destiny of my father or over me, and thus he touted his great summitry, some
Nuclear Day banner. (243) Having
sacrificed my freedom to the nuclear question, And
having ceded our wealth to nations foreign In
the stead of the war recited; Reagan reduced that bastion, The
freedom of the individual, our grass roots, to yet a slavery question now
politically soaring. (244) The
philosophical turnabout so commonly taken In
this enigmatic Nuclear Day of man, When
reason and sensible interests so totally shaken Have
been reduced to a question of nuclear arms ban; (245) This
change of thinking among the ruling few, And
especially quite foreign is it to America the pearl, Whereby
the freedom of the individual has turned out of view Of
the wisdom which in the founding days did it so unfurl; (246) Such
loss of perspective which had our great Civil War wrought, Whereby
the freedom of a person is for trade, for sale; This
envisioning of the slavery of the masses by those machers thus sought, Will
never tame the Nuclear Dragon, never his fiery tongue will it pale. (247) It
remains with man to take a wife, To
sound out his destiny in the sanction of that love; And
rear their children throughout all marital strife, Surrendering
with courage all destiny to that Maker above. (248) It
remains yet with mankind to this nuclear challenge meet From
the foundation of his destined culture, a view unified: And
that cultural unit so basic, so clear, is the family itself, from which seat Is
procreated the greatest work of genius God can man offer--the individual in
truth personified. (249) Slavery
itself is a question of the individual interfaced against formidable odds Which
freedom odds do forsake, subjugating the mind beyond immediate repair; When
born, this division of duty by ownership delusion, in a political system that
slavery lauds, It
becomes a ruling evil which draws its destiny from economic sentence to class
unfair. (250) An
individual convinced that no relation to the world, its people, can offer way or
worth As
according to values, morals, and a vision of inclusion so dear to
self-actuation; Such
individual surmise will coincide all too perfectly with that concept of lowered
birth, Which
gives his equally deluded friend, some provider, the claim of the freedom of
that other instead of his possible salvation. (251) For
God provides all, the strength is in the asking, for one whose destiny looms
large Before
stricken eyes, that no equal chance for providence is ever going to be
delivered; Let
the beggars teach all how to live on the potential energy of faith in God's
providential surge Unfailingly,
whether at the last moment before breath expires--does he find therein
God's love untethered. (252) The
total surrender to God most high, will provide the way for the one but for want
deemed somehow low; Such
vision expansive of God only and of all provider, reduces the question of
freedom to His fount, His
fount wherein infinite mercy and sustenance are to be given didactically, and to
a beggar thus humbled will certainly show God
Himself, revealed in each act of giving as lovingly aware, though in practically
knowing this, there is no just count. (253) For
to the beggar supreme and enigmatically endowed thus with the grand
confrontational metaphysics to ask, That
of the reality ultimate which the physical universe does grossly express, behind illusion's
veil, called maya; To
such an inquirer humbled to receiving on track with inquirer's unique
inquiry, the beggar's task, The
giving to another of the chance to give: the knowledge conferred lies beyond
measure, and only proves each time God's infinite daya. (254) Giving
is receiving; to ask is to order the mind of another according to
universal laws, Itself
the rare gift of the beggar's metaphysical walk, where interjection of useful
distribution Is
nothing but the portrayal most direct of God's absolute ownership; no one should
give pause In
the face of the expression of one so holy as to live this belief in the physical
of love's charity institution. (255) These
verses I write while the enemy does quiver, The
enemy to the individual and of America the free; For
I became a sadhu
as God was the sole giver, Of
my great battle for freedom for the world to see. (256) For
this one glorious battle I fought, a beggar rudely neglected and put out, Was
a personal struggle against persecution and death; The
slave politickers merely stole from my deeds to create clout, Wherein
they indoctrinated others, recruited them wrongly, at reactive mind's behest. (257) Oh!
America my land, America the great, How
for you I have fought and prayed for so long; May
we the people preserve again your freedom gate, For
those who have lost courage--may we sing again soon her great freedom's battle
song. (258) We
of old sang this battle twice before, once in the founding days, and then again
in the Civil War; And
in all the intermittent decades have we reaped the benefits of freedom birth,
freedom defense; Were
we freed from political slavery, thence from behind legal slavery's locked door; America,
your beauty and stature were born openly in time; as a pearl born yet of an
impurity, nor a grain of pretense. (258) Just
as a great man once was surrendered totally to his mother so dear, Nor
could he walk or state his simple needs in words not yet learned; So
does a nation once born grow and develop; and that only as values do her steer, Even if
once for a brief while had the ship-of-state off propriety's course sadly
turned. (260) Now
if mankind is to face off that invisible Nuclear Dragon, the whip of these mad
freedom slayers; If
all the world is to envision a kinder place and more secure future, the
individual's destiny resurgent; Then
we must with truth confront these monied mud fish, of slavery the traitorous
pavers, And
this the better confrontation by far than some futile fear of annihilation's
sallow sergeant. (261) This
bold confrontation throughout each nation may occur, Winning
discrete national victories for the 'free world' so great; Yet
when pitted against the nuclear question to aver, Whether
communism or democracy should become ultimate fate; (262) The
national boundary can no longer contain The
necessary border limit for vital self-determination; Freedom
in question to annihilation's threat gives rein To
that lack of proving grounds for military individuation. (263) As
the national borders coalesce in such an abstract threat so total, Such
that to launch a nuclear attack on another Is
to invite the same upon the one who does thus attack, No
logical or rational solution obtains: such thinking itself is fatal. (264) This
nuclear thinking, where no strategy is possible, becomes fatal to the
free-thinking man; No
longer can countries attain to integrity from which they can accomplish given
goals; Thus,
when held in the Nuclear Dragon's destructive abode, the question of 'free
versus slavery hand,' Slavery
will win out easily, and this all the more likely due to man's evil ways over
others, his greed, his ignorance perennially he shows. (265) May
I pander to your fears and yet make this point emphatically once again in your
trust, That
freedom, the individual, equality and justice for all, are still worth
dying for in this Nuclear Day; That
the stakes of war gone geopolitical, wherein nations' borders collapse once
again into the mother Earth's crust, Do
not give sanction to enslavement of the peoples, no matter what those communists
may say. (266) Now
you will counter most logically , you say earnestly that I must be
likewise gone mad, insane, For
then I am calling the nations of the world in this Nuclear Age to the actuation
of nuclear war! In
lieu if slavery, yes, may the everyday man and woman so free remain, Giving
life's surprises and creative gifts an assured place forever more. (267) I
say unto you, when a single soldier for his nation goes to fight, He
faces the question of death as a single person; Similarly,
the nation faces war's destiny, battle's flight, To
supremacy, to defeat, to destruction so fiersome. (268) So
does the world now strangely encounter Its
destiny in war due to the nuclear bomb, As
once only a man, or a nation would reconnoiter for sounder Hopes
of life's continuation, to war thus gone. (269) The
question of war's outcome may thus loom larger in the nuclear perspective, Yet
the answer to fight remains the same, else we to slavery instead will die; And
this is the battle line, my people, drawn up by my personal mission's
directive, That
must be drawn from as teaching, as answer to the omnipresent nuclear sky (270) For
this is the battle line of freedom foregone, forsaken by nuclear man so cruel, As
to sacrifice my proven genius, my virtuous beauty and spoken mission, To
some sterile Super Power summitry, whose treaties even drawn are the ghoul
Of
that yet present absolute power to destroy, man's crucifix thus given. (271) For
they left me afloat in all my beauty and promise, Afloat
on Broadway to beg where no beggar held esteem; They
stole my freedom, my scientific contributions on some uncertain premise That
my intelligence was unreal, as if not mine--could I correct answers
feign? (272) No!
Else they would not have been seen as so true, Nor
I as so impossible a person to sum up, to intellectually defeat; What
was done to my life, my marriage, my freedom's view Stands
as the great atrocity of war : that I alone so long hungry, homeless on the
street. (273) This
is how I know so intimately the nature of the nuclear threat, For
I embraced the cold street instead of my husband for years so long; I
know it must be fought, else I would be dead instead, Yet,
do not you, my people fret : God can, as He did for me, create the
nuclear battle song. Just
as in mechanics Newtonian, where an action knows its equal counterpart, Can
intelligent scientific man dream up and invent the answer, the nuclear sword; Can
man in his Divinity endowment, bring back to his warrior head his heart, And
fashion a nuclear sword to smite that nuclear dragon, until, 'the dragon is no
more.' (275) If
man can for his leisure, comfort, and sheer convenience project and create this
technological work, this day, Challenging
thus time for speed, and space for its concomitant loss of nature's awesome
beauty, for asphalt instead; Then
he can put all of that comfort and saved time, in its efficiency supreme, to
make way For
the taming technologically of the nuclear bomb: only then will free man have
been properly led. (276) Now
as that politically-deemed Strategic Defense Initiative, With
which Washington had answered my relayed written treatise political, Is
born in the practical to intelligent political man's collective; We
as individuals suffer diffusely in the grips of nuclear war inimical. (277) Why?
Because the nuclear war cannot be fought, Thus
bullies brandish this quixotic fight dream; And
in so doing the individual's freedom is bought, As
a few practitioners of nuclear talk establish their communist regime. (278) Thus,
my people, may I from my life's long struggle for freedom, held hostage to
that question nuclear, Say
that to interrupt my freedom, and hold me back from my destiny as your deserving
leader, Is
to fight the nuclear war undeniably : why should those Super Power machers
endlessly interfere With
my privacy, my family, my freedom in question? Why am I of that fantasy
battle the chosen bleeder? (279) My
inheritance of office was long foretold, was prophesied by others I cannot even
for you name; This
method of opposition to my destiny so great, and the concomitant intrigue and
intelligence, Instituted
a perspective meaningful to other world leaders, the battle the gift all the
same; Not
to mention the spoils of the war, which as it grew by my victories, gained
proportion by generous increments. (280) May
I confide in you, for your hearts do rule, as through mine, which for you does
endure Through
all measures of contempt, hostility and living conditions unkind, unclean; May
I tell you my mind which is suffused in prayer, that I believe alone in
miraculous cure As
the way to proceed in this nuclear war: that Divinity alone our future does
deem. (281) What
is a miracle? This rudimentary question should be put to task, Yet
to witness one, an individual must first have faith in God supreme; A
miracle defined is an act of God which rules the physical, in His light to bask, In
a way inexplicable to physical laws except in retrospect, as in a dream. (282) God
alters reality in its grossest level in order to exert His will, And
the physical realm is but the grossest expression of God's totality-- Upon
this knowledge was built my faith to go forth and for you fulfill, For
God through you, my people, did I fulfill my destiny's awesome reality. (283) For
I knew before I the material world had fully renounced That
the nuclear question ruled down to the individual, potentially, The
mind of man; thus I approached this life unannounced Except
as some beggar, trusting in God's miracles, to solve man's quandary
existentially. (284) And
I began this life's mission, humility in tact, As
the savior daughter of my revered, wise father; You,
my people, were led throughout with misguided fact, So
that with the nuclear question those machers could you once again so
perniciously bother. (285) This
method popular of subjugation of the masses, Such
attempted rule by enslavement of all but a few, Is
not only an ideological contest with its intelligence facets, Whereby
communistic nations would spread slavery in name alone made new; (286) But
also, the enslavement of man, even of geopolitical surmise, Is
a projection of ignorance, that delusion to control, Where
no outcome of justified battle, equipped therein with the element of surprise, Could
ever again, it seems, give resolution, give expertise in war its virtue to
extol. (287) Now
I think of times classical, when if a warrior supreme Set
out to conquer, to gain the thrust of war, In
answer to conflicts, to settle with honor, no fantastic dream; If
he in war thus made victory: this was rulership lore. (288) Now
compare today's leaders, who come up intellectually, By
words, by schemes, many by corruption's tarnished trust; When
one rises to the top, what is war to him/her conceptually? Some
long lost art, history's mellow memory, whilst the Nuclear Dragon does the mind
obfusc. (289) I
know what it means to fight; fight clears the mind, Ready
for the next, and gives assurance that freedom is here, That
the integrity of self rules beyond, through all threat does shine; Fight
gives honorable settlement, and is transcendent to fear. |