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Proper Ways
Poem
Proper Ways
With three hundred men
he took the country.
Not, he said, for self importance,
nor to grab what wealth
he could and run
but to help the weak,
the needy
and destitute.
Done, he said, for their good
To educate them
in the right and proper ways
of living life.
The selfish become selfless,
All who can give must give their all.
Like termites, the individual
becomes communal.
He did not ask them
the right and proper ways.
He knew already.
Now there is no wondering,
no doubt, no error.
Now no one has the right
nor privilege
to make their own mistakes.
Michael R Chapman
~ master of none ~
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