The first quote below, I learned as the epigraph of the book, Let Them Call Me Rebel, a biography of Saul Alinsky, the great American organizer and social activist. The Lao Tzu quote following it make an interesting pairing and setup for this poem…
Holy Obedient
“Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.” ― Thomas Paine
“Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law” ― Lao Tzu
He was called
A rebel
It was rumored he new know law
Those surround him
Gravely in choiring
What he may no that they don’t
Knot equal to the task
That he is
Behaving won self
Holy obedient
