Seven Letter Riddle

What am I?

 

I have seven letters- beginning with ‘J’

I’m a concept disproven by judges who say,

‘I may have no morals and I may be blind

(Your bank balance may balance the scales that are I)

But unless you want chaos- like those wretches before,

You will turn a blind eye to the rich who write law’

 

I have seven letters- beginning with ‘L’

I’m a concept drowned out by the tolls of a bell

That rings against protest and culls active thought

It rings that you gather in classrooms and taught

To think 'uniform'- to modify your skills

To fit into ‘norms’ and relinquish free will

 

I have seven letters- beginning with ‘F’

I’m a concept ignored by the leader who’s deaf

To the masses that voted that they represent

The voice of a people and support their intent

My patrols can’t control what you do in your home

So I keep you locked in there with no right to roam

 

I have seven letters- beginning with (A)

I’m a concept discounted by all other ways

I’m condemned into chaos- although there’s no proof,

As I disrespect order in the telling of truth

But these seven letters are more vital than all

 Justice, Liberty and Freedom live at my core.

 

 

Author's Note

This poem is more than two years old and only a handful of people have correctly guessed the final answer.

Reviews

[ascelticas]

I liked this. I guessed the words before I got to the end, and the fourth was just as apparent.
It can only prevail when men are all inner-directed, and don't need their chains. Until then, the
word will seem like a four-letter word; to be despised, because not understood. But apart from
the A-word, the C-word (communism) was misunderstood because the chains were kept by its shell-shocked experimenters. And the greatest joke of all is that the D-word (democracy) has degenerated into a Soviet lookalike because the chains are retained there as well. All of which leads me to conceive of this world as a school, and a Borstal at that. The repairs are needed on the inmates, not the institution. The school is tailored to the inmates' needs; it's not a defective institution in its own right. You know I'm right.

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Congrats on your winning poem!

[Nautili]

Anarchy? Am I supposed to give the word? I had a different one, read it over again, and changed my mind.

[~Mariposa Una Lila~]

im not good at guessing.....but i sure know when i like a poem...and i found this to be a real delight! x0x00x

[spence]

Thanks very much for your insightful review and yes: I also concede that you're right, to a point. IMO The inner direction of 'Man' has proven to be the whole of the problem. The societal curriculum of pursuing achievement, power, status, popularity, etc effects each and every one of us in some way. From Gi Joe, to 'tally ho!' 'Big boys don't cry' 'Only the strong survive'- 'numero uno'- 'me, me, me' The self perpetuated ego-testical macho bullshit that has permeated society and evolved throughout history may have made anarchism, communism, socialism, et al, impossible to actualise in our four letter word world. Especially as access to any alternative source of truth is willfully suppressed by the self interested profiteerers that manipulate the species. As an example- on a microcosmic level: I remember when i read the Davinci Code and, despite it not being my kind of read, saw what a wonderful message of parity and 'gender interconnectedness' the author was trying to promote and felt hope that something so enlightening could become 'mainstream'. Then the media contrived to drown it out beneath the 'conspiracy', 'true facts' that informed the fictional book and various allegations of plaigerism. I see things like this in so much of everyday life- and being a man who was raised by his mother and has two daughters, (as well as being a human being that wants to live in peace), I have a vested interest in the true attainment of what the men in power have labelled 'equality'. On all concievable levels
I sometimes describe myself an 'anarchist' as there is no other descriptive word to label me with! I suppose I am anti-political/partisan in terms of believing simply this:
People can govern their own lives without a government- because, outside of penalties and restrictions, they already do. They prove that they can make decisions and contribute to societies structure everytime they text/e-mail their opinion to some mindless 'reality' tv program. We build the buildings, fight the wars, manage everyday family/work/community/social life between ourselves. Crime is defined by someone else and when a crime is visited upon one of us the state does not prevent it- it merely intervenes and doles out its judgement after the fact. One could argue that the majority of crime is related to relative poverty and low aspirations and that states create these social inequalities in the first instance, but that would be beside the point. The state does not prevent crime through its deterents- if people want to commit crime- they will do so anyway. (How do we deal with it? I dunno! I have some ideas, but this is a collective effort y'know?)
Between us we have all the pieces of the puzzle, but are putting them in the wrong places- our technology is misused and suppressed by war mongering men- and women stripped of womanhood. We do not need the wealthy to cajole us into work for their profit- and the services they offer amount to our own people working in an organisation- and it is even 'we' that organise it- from (almost) top to bottom and back again. People just don't seem to realise that if we carried on pretty much as we are, without the state interventions of taxation, regulation, law and war, then we wouldn't need them. Even in war and enforcement it is like against like fighting for the crumbs that fall from the rich mans table. If not for their negative input we wouldn't even notice they existed. Everything would carry on as normal in their absence or their presence just the same.
I predict that if we cannot create a better world between ourselves then this world order will end in catastrophe, (it must, eventually), and, if any of us survive, then collectivised living, based on mutual co-operation and care will become a reality. Through necessity.
So my answer to your comment is that i agree that school is tailored to the inmates' needs, but I still believe that the inamtes are capable of breaking out of the box if they were snapped from their 'hypnosis', provided they escape the ritalin treatment, (like i did). But I agree that the institution must not be broken, (to break something implies violent revoltution and that is just more of the same): it must instead be rendered irrelevant, by the changes that come from within. It's a bit of a 'chicken and egg' scenario in some ways, I suppose- just where would we begin?
Sorry for the long winded message. (I'm drunk and tired- amongst other things, so i really hope it makes sense)- your review inspired me to deep inner thought- it's a long time since I've been challenged to such an extent- thank you, spence

[Legion]

Bravo. Love it. I'm going to send you a piece of mind that touches on some of this as well. Kudos.