Eternal Recurrence rhapsody

ETERNAL  RECURRENCE RHAPSODY 

(Last line of each stanza is quote of the legendary poets.)

Good and evil, human made
Not eternal, but a charade 
Morals serve interests at hand
"The world is too much with us, late and soon" (Wordsworth)

Values serve the strong to gain
Over the weak, their moral reign
Slave morality in its guise     
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen" (Gray)

Will to power the primal drive  
Beneath each action, we survive
Interpretations through our lens   
"And Mile on mile of fertile ground" (Tennyson)  

Revalue with a vision new 
All values tired and outdated too
Challenge dogmas solidified 
"But still try, for who knows what is possible?" (Faiz)

The free spirits, they must rebel  
Against the systems where we dwell  
Create new pathways for our race  
"That is no country for old men." (Yeats)  

No absolute truth be told  
Just perspectives manifold
Appearance, reality entwined 
"In nature there's no blemish but the mind" (Waller)

God is dead, a fable tossed   
Cosmic orders in the past are lost  
Individuality be prized
"I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree" (Kilmer)  

Conformity of the herd resisted  
Let excellence be invested  
Each forge their values whole   
"Yet somehow life goes forward endlessly" (Ghavami)

Woman's virtues feminine in kind  
Not inferior, of a different mind  
Let each their strengths enshrine  
"If yet I have not all thy love, Dear, I shall live." (Rossetti)

Eternal recurrence, a litmus test  
Would you relive your life at its best?  
Embrace existence at its height   
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep." (Frost)

The overman, human summit high   
New values born that shall not die   
Self-mastered, independent, strong  
"The world's great age begins anew" (Shelley)  

Study motives, unconscious trends    
Why each system its values defends   
Expose the roots of moral thoughts  
"Had we but world enough and time" (Marvell)

Life-denial of old escaped              
This world rejected, ideals they shaped      
Now affirm existence concrete   
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments" (Shakespeare)

Pseudo-sciences of race decried          
Myths of nation equally denied        
Inequalities they underwrite  
"The centre cannot hold" (Yeats)

The ascetic's path life denigrates         
Of body and senses, it proflimates          
Anti-essence of human existence        
"Now what of human life may lie before us, here?" (Whitman)  

The gay science of joy arrives
Here sensualities thrive  
Wisdom rooted in this plane   
"For I must tread on the tedious road" (Milton)  

Be skeptical of claims overstated  
Of cosmic systems overrated         
Each view has its confines     
"Do I wake or sleep?" (Wordsworth)  

The aphoristic leaves unsaid         
For each to interpret threads       
Of multiple meanings unfurled  
"Out of the quarries of lit words" (Wallace Stevens)  

Existentialism he foretold                
Postmodern currents did unfold           
Nietzsche ruptured Western thought         
"Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone." (Tennyson)

Kishore Vastani