“Reason Not The Need!”

“Reason Not The Need!”

Invite somebody hungry in

To have a bite of bread to eat,

Your host (in order to begin)

Must offer him a proper seat;

For human dignity demands

The recognition, which indeed,

Is what somebody understands:

As Reason far exceeds the need.

You needn’t be a Shakespeare to

Remember King Lear’s tragedy,

And what his daughters try to do

Through robbing him of dignity.

Necessity should not provide

The reason for his being served

His retinue—whilst they denied

The honor that a king deserved.

Denied, it would be their excuse

His daughters gave him to deny

That King Lear really had the use

For they made it the reason why,

As they’d base his dominion on,

(And it would be the end of all

The machinations they had gone

To bring about their sire’s fall)

This ‘reasoning’ that lay behind

King Lear and his great tragedy

Was what the Poet had in mind,

For, they denied Lear’s dignity;

And God’s dominion is the base

Of human worth unworldly that

Depends on nothing but a place

Where every human being’s at.