The Poem

Song of the common man

Song of the common man


Not born

At ordained hour

Nor reared: in walled palaces 

The old the sick, the dead 

Have no power

To make me digress.

Fair arms I will not leave 

For the thorns of Uruvela far 

Nor pleasures put to a sieve 

And stop a bloody war

No royal charioteer leads me 

I walk on foot

Miss the bus, smirk at deeds

Done in darkness, by daylight refute.

Nor do I know my soul goes where When I tell a

tie, betray a friend I wonder if it is really there

Too busy with body, on soul to tend

Thus I will go from year to year 

carrying my burden, blunt, coarse

Just wise enough to fear

The mob's killing spree and stay indoors.