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Beware of Inequalities Too Wide
Jun 26, 2024
A Bastille Day poem about the dangers of allowing inequalities between classes to grow too wide:
Beware of inequalities too wide
And chasms that cannot be bridged by dreams.
Societies fray first along the seams,
Then rip apart, exposing rot inside.
In chaos hopes for liberty abide;
Life in its Edenic newness gleams;
Longing is more brutal than it seems;
Ecstatic demons 'cross the wastelands glide.
Do, then, recall the day of the Bastille
As one whose burst of glory would reveal
Yearnings that would stain the turning tide.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Audio and Video Music: Bittersweet. By SYBS. Music free to use at YouTube.
To see this poem on my site, go to
https://www.poemsforfree.com/bewar2.html. For more Bastille Day poems, go to
https://www.poemsforfree.com/bastilledaypoems.html .
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Beware of inequalities too wide, And chasms that cannot be bridged by dreams
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Societies fray first along the seas, Then rip apart, exposing rot inside
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In chaos, hopes for liberty abide, Life in its Edenic newness glooms
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Longing is more brutal than it seems, Ecstatic demons cross the wasteland's glide
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Do then recall the day of the Bastille, As one whose burst of glory would reveal yearnings
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That would stain the turning tide
