The Mystery of Right and Left

The Mystery of Right and Left

What did you have in mind, Chaucer,
When you wrote Canterbury Tales?
Did you mean to give a new meaning
To good and evil as a matter of policy?
Was good meant to allude to Right
And Evil to Left or viceversa’?
Well, whatever you had in mind
People have made their own deductions
And both of them seem to be Right? Wrong?
Half the world is Leftist Half Rightist
There are Left wings and Right wings
Everywhere.
Cars are driven on the left in England and India
On the Right in America and Australia
Latin’s languages are scribed
From Left to Right
Arabic and Persian from Right to Left
Unusually some like the Japanese
scribe from Right to Left as well as
Top to Bottom!
O Chaucer! What made you write
Your Masterpiece?
What motivated you to judge Good and Evil
Without considering their direction?
Right is Rightly good in some places
Left is Rightly good in other
If both Left and Right are Good
Then what’s Evil about?
When ever I look at the clock
(I have looked at the Big Ben too)
It surprises me to note that no one
Has yet noticed why all the Hands
Of this Chronometer are still moving
In the Right Direction
when making them move
From Left to Right would also serve the purpose
Without casting any Evil spell on Time!
mazHur

What no responses? This is delightfully philosophical, reflective, and engaging. You finish reading this poem with a feeling of a secure, even hopeful world.

It is interesting. I echo Jersea's comments. :) And I have no problem associating leftist with evil. :p

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Originally Posted by Virgil

I have no problem associating leftist with evil. :p

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Seems to me that Jesus guy had a few lefty ideas. Should we lump him in with the rest of the evil ones?

Regards,

Istvan

The only real negative critique I have to say is that this is a bit too dry and too much "telling". It feels more like a philosophical statement than a poem. But I certainly love the theme and it's another I love to write and think about. People are so naturally bias and are so quick to separate good from bad, right from wrong, left from right and lock down these definitions as surely as scientific fact without ever considering that they may be utterly wrong and others might be right or perhaps both sides are wrong or both equally right or perhaps there is no right or wrong outside what we define ourselves.

It's interesting you used Chaucer as your example since I'm currently reading the extensive intro to Chaucer in the Riverside Chaucer and will begin Canterbury Tales afterward.