{"id":5505,"date":"2024-03-29T19:36:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2024-03-29T19:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T23:36:31","slug":"poem-what-is-de-served","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/29\/poem-what-is-de-served\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: What is De-served?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a grievance-filled whirled, there is often attention brought to rights violations, particularly when it is one’s own rights that are violated. Of course, rights are meaningless without responsibilities to secure those rights. This is where the chasm in securing such rights emerges: devoting prodigious energy on securing one’s own rights without a commensurate effort on securing the rights of others and all. I am a huge fan of human rights and consider developing a culture of responsibilities to secure those rights for all is a foundation for all of my social action. I view the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a> as the best cross-cultural and secular expression of rights and their commensurate responsibilities.\u00a0 If we do not strike a fair balance of securing rights for ourselves AND others, then we will undercut our own ability, and moral authority, to secure rights for ourselves. This poem reflects on this reality of humanity failing to serve up the responsibilities required to secure rights for all resulting in an insecure world that we de-serve.<\/p>\n

What is De-served?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the heart
\nOf life
\nThere are rights
\nAnd responsibilities
\nAs well
\nFore awe
\nThat can ever be yearned<\/p>\n

In the mine
\nOver yours
\nThere is a whirled
\nOf consequences
\nAnd that what should happen to
\nComeuppance<\/p>\n

With respect too
\nHuman rights
\nThere are
\nResponsibilities too
\nDue the same
\nAs well
\nSuch potable virtues<\/p>\n

When it comes down
\nTo human wrongs
\nAs far as you will
\nWeather getting even
\nOr grieving be foul
\nKarma runs over
\nOur three-legged dogmas<\/p>\n

And what due
\nWe get
\nWhat we serve
\nOr de-serve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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