Having long forgotten the problems of our progenitors
we resent the constraints that served in their time to “civilize”
we cast them off in self-actualized hubris manifesting our “freedom”
Without those constraints society regresses to a dark age
where we are be unable to recount either our freedom
nor the solutions and constraints that tamed the scourge of rakes;
or we “will” ourselves to power and become rakes ourselves.
For we live in a world of men and women who cannot self regulate
It is harder work to refine those prescriptions so that they still serve us today
And it is not unfaithful, but diligent to own the failings of the past
we are mostly slaves and serfs and little people
not that one royal ancestor we proudly hail 47 generations back
And it seems this message must be refreshed from time to time
act justly love mercy walk humbly
