For A Change

[RobinHood3000]

My first poem here. I'm actually sort of excited. And before anyone asks, this hasn't happened to me - it's simply extrapolation. I'm just curious to see what people think...

For A Change

The stage supports him.
So do the people.
For a change.

He speaks - they listen.
He loves - it is requited.

He suggests a way - it is accepted.
He offers aid - they understand why.

He questions - they don't try to answer.
For a change.

The heathen awakes from his dream, and cries.

[ampoule]

How interesting. I would love to be able to dig down deeper and find from where this comes.

[white camellia]

I cannot help locating various interpretations in the vast space the five stanzas have built here. Hmm, the image of one man, the stage and the people gave me an impression of a political leader or a priest. The people behave in a modest manner and stayed quiet because they invested hope and belief in that man to work out a change for them, socially or individually. Yet it was disappointing.
What is especially interesting to me is that it talks about 'Change' and 'Way' which happen to be related to ideas about changes in a classic, I-Ching, or the Book of Changes. But the difference of the change discussed in that book and the change spotted here stands clear as the former emphasized the significance for the people to follow the changes of the world while the poem is like talking about the people's attempts at making a change.
I wonder whether the heathen, the sad one is the 'He' in the previous stanzas.
As put in that classic, Heaven produces the five elements which all things are made of. The changes (caused by time) of these elements result in the physical change of a thing. "One should act in accordance with the changes-or in accordance with what is normal. To act against normalcy results in monstrous abnormality (I don't quite understand the word 'heathen', but here it seems to me that a heathen is against normalcy).

Thank you for sharing this! Hope to learn more from other readers.

[Pendragon]

Great show, my brother! But not surprising, as I have read your song parodies before. A lot of meaning in so few words. But some of us have been listening all along, others still struggle with beams while searching for motes, a scriptural reference that might mean a lot to you.

Pen

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[Pensive]

Very interesting, Robin! There are many ways in which one can interpret it. :)

[RobinHood3000]

:blush:

Those who know me well know from where this poem springs...

[formality hater]

Very interesting,indeed!

[SleepyWitch]

A lot of meaning in so few words.


I'll second that. very good poem, Robin