Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Revel in Your Righteousness

October 6, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is peace and brotherly love, in honor of the fact that Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Muharram, the Muslim New Year, fall just one day apart.

Today’s poem is about how joy in being affects the mix of good and evil in everyone.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Revel in your righteousness,
For you are truly good,
Wise enough to understand
What lies behind each “should.”

There's depth to your morality
And kindness to your care.
Duty joins with empathy
To will the weight you bear.

Oh, yes, you hear the suffering
That sings within your heart
Of death and pain, of cruelty
In which all must take part.

Oh, yes, within you strangle
The people whom you hate,
And sex consumes your fantasies
With lust no love can sate.

But underneath, a canticle
Of gratitude and praise
Creates a choral pedal point
To harmonize your days.

There is a joy in being
That does all goodness move,
A universal gravity
That binds all things in love.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/reveli.html. For more philosophical poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Peace and Brotherly Love.
October 6: Revel in Your Righteousness

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