Man

I know now that man

Isn't all that he seems,

But the measure of man

Is displayed in his dreams.

 

The ideas and thoughts,

Things encircling his head,

Should be carried out

Through his actions instead.

 

It is of no use

For a man not to show

What he is pursuing

So that others may grow.

 

Reviews

[Pax Analog]

Indeed. This poem's one of those natural poster reminders.

And of course it needs to be remembered that language use is an action, that the entire Matrix grid we all live on is constructed from (frequently specious) rhetorical assumptions. Just thinking of that old saw, "Actions speak louder than words," which is frequently true, but is glossing on the greater responsibility to treat language deployment with greater depth and respect, so that IT is obviously a significant action. One thinks of the power of song lyrics to energize social movements; the Age of Reason eloquence of the Declaration of Independence; the undeserved enshrinement of mediocre scripture (my pet project), to say nothing of cultural buzzwords, and sometimes even marketing maxims.

And then once Man shows what he is pursuing in actions and words, there is no guarantee others will pick up on it. Human-kind is a perennially unfinished construct. Some of that is inevitable due to emergent properties in Time. Much of it is unconscious recalcitrance, the preference of folks for dead lies to living truths. "People are strange."

Anyway, your deceptively simple proclamation stumulates much consideration, as you can see. ;-)

"What a piece of work is Man [human-kind]. . ."

[nostal]

Nice.