Beware of the Future: We Are the Ancien Régime

July 11, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is revolution, in honor of Bastille Day, which falls on July 14.

Today’s poem is a Bastille Day warning to the present about future revolutions.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Beware of the future: We are the ancien régime.

As to them their world of privilege seemed

Solid as the centuries, so we

Take ours to be the way the world should be.

In the sheltering wake of our billionaires

Looting the world, our own market shares

Leave us little room for denial. Come!

Embrace the prisoners of the Bastille! Some

Defend their privilege, but let it go!

Ancien régimes find some honor so,

Yielding up their heritage of woe.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/bewar3.html. For more poems for Bastille Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/bastilledaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Revolution.

July 11: Beware of the Future: We Are the Ancien Régime