Post by Master of Tacos on Feb 18, 2018 12:18:13 GMT -5
After a week of voting, I am pleased to announce the winner of February 2018 Poet Laureate Contest: @kozmix! Here is his entry, Entry 2:
An Apology of the Privileged
Seated in the highest chair of Privilege,
I muse on the perspectives of those below,
not an egotist, acknowledging Life a stage
"With what authority do you claim, good sir,
That you stand over those of less privilege!"
says Society: the stern interrogator.
"I mean no offense to the people referred
'Tis simply an astute observation and knowledge:
This burden I carry, emotions deferred."
Society takes never such words kindly,
And with a glare of pure despise and shock,
Speaks to the arrogance within me roughly,
"Consider not the virtues of your birth,
An excuse to boast your little burden,
To those who suffer the unjust, cruel wrath
The wrath of which you reap the pleasures, unjust,
The wrath of a wronged birth, with no control,
By the likes of your proud burdens, ashes and dust"
I remained calm as accusations flew at me,
I argue not with the Society that nurtured,
All who I was, all who I was going to be.
Though now my most neutral observations,
are colored by society's hierarchies,
I seek not a Great Bourgeois Revolution.
For Society knows her inherent hypocrisy,
That a "fact" is both the seer and the seen,
And ffor that I seek pardon, the great apology.
For there is nothing more inherent yet simple,
Than a man recieving the fruit of his labor,
And I, looking down to see that miniscule,
Speck of dust contribution to this throne,
Atop which I sit and muse on perspectives,
No action can give me that content. None.
Congrats @kozmix! Thank you as well to Louisistan (Entry 1) and Kortexia (Entry 3)!
The Poet Laureate contest will be back in June, so keep up the creativity, Islanders!
