POETRY - POLITICAL


Euro-Phoenix

Did the intellectualisation of progress and evolution,
Ultimately precondition, the inevitable mighty 20th century conflagration,
Between Hegel’s dual offspring, German doctrinal nationalism and internationalism.
National Socialism and Bolshevik Communism, in duel ascendancy,
Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, head to head to the death.
What was the lesson, of this colossal European explosion,
That so nearly engulfed the world in terror, horror and darkness, for the foreseeable future.
Was it perhaps a mirror image, reflection or reverberation of an earlier event,
Of divisive competitive dual, consular power politics of Republican Rome.
That fuelled a competitive expensive foreign policy,
To finance demagogic patronage bribing politics,
Blindly riding the Ben Hur, helter skelter chariot race to civil war.
Imperial and Absolute Power, astride the ashes of the Republic,
The great social experiment, of democratic evolution ended.
I hope that my intuitive comparison is no illusion, but a sign
Of a portentous European future, a rising phoenix of stability and wisdom,
Mirroring the stability and longevity, of Imperial Rome.
With decentralizing, self-adjusting democratic mechanisms and regulations,
Bringing peace, harmony and prosperity, within and without
The historic boundaries, of this pioneering continent.