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Lessons to My Son – My Country My King
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Aug 2010 Contest, English Poetry |
In this poem, the king is trying to tell his son (prince) about what country means and how to rule the kingdom properly so as to gain the confidence of the masses and all the classes in a kingdom.
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Oh! Adamant Prince
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When you stood the peaks
and gazed upon
Yes, you were just one.
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When you raced the winds
yes, you surely won
Yet you were all alone and one.
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When you showered only words
and delivered mere thoughts
You were still far wide and apart.
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When you showed away their little pain
and sought in which a little light
Still you were alone in search of a gain.
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When you tried to prove your self
between words of wrong and right
All, but only wronged you.
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For thy Country
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But when you would stand amongst
and touch their sorrows,
Not from the peaks
but as one from the boroughs.
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When you show a candle to all their darks
and joy in their lights
feel just wonderful
of all good, there, that brights.
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When, what you proved
were their thoughts,
and that be approved
Then right it is.
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And so my son
When you seek the masses
in all that’s wise,
Proven to classes
doth, you shall be their choice.
Then this kingdom, these people, to you my son
They would accept and be proud upon.
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