The Fanatic

Who would have thought of pragmatism's recent origins
That the American's want to impress their thought on our previous century
would continue to carry such weight

That they take to task what they label dogmatic thought's
Based upon their unsaid assumptions
Of prior centuries, and their past philsophers

And within the same breath,
Would want for you to ignore their's.
that they make "rational" the want for more of the same

That their vested interest offer no change
Scraps from the Dinner table, 
where the people have no seat

But for us, who believe in Prophets sent

We know that revolutionary zeal 
Is when partnered with a true faith, 
Not a zealots dream.

But is made of the people whose
Hearts have not been tarnished by covetous wealth
Nor hardered by trials, heaped high, heaped

That on any other would have broken our spines.

So fashioned us into champions, who would not let live the lie 

For our hearts know only the giving

that we be for the people, and not those few
Who would frame the question, set the measure
And then allow an incremental movement

Token change 
that never would a serious challenge make
But we will never bow before those few,

Nor that "rationalist" idea, 
That Pragmatist's lie.

That wants for you to ignore their hypocrisy. 

Will condemn us no more,
To a life, more of the same.
For God enlivened us with a belief, sure.

That death calls to us 

A return so looked for 

But in the meantime we choose to live our lives so well 

For the people 

And not those so fell

Who have lost their own selves 

END

InshaAllah to preface a new blog -

The pragmatist’s lie. 

Written 6th April - Brummington.