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Line of Duty
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Tuesday, December 27, 2016    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Those who use to renounce

The privilege of rank, do it

As if they were casting away

So much mud -- they know

That they are themselves

More honourable and ethical

Than those ranking privileges.

 

The honour belonging to one's Self

Is not lost by any transformations;

A myriad changes may take place

Before the end of them

Is reached in a hole.

 

What is there

In all this sufficient

To trouble the mind?

Those who have attained

To the principle of advance

Understand the subject at once.


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 Reviews of "Line of Duty"
Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on December 27, 2016

well said

never stop writing!!

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on December 27, 2016
I still have trouble with the chain of command and how higher ranking individuals making bad decisions are allowed to continue. Your poem seems to give reverence to those without rank.

Ron

Reviewed on December 27, 2016
I can't say it better than John already has. 'Enjoyed!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on December 27, 2016
Honor, as you suggest here, seems to come from action, behavior, soul, rather than any outside privilege of rank; but many people don't understand this. That's why they seek position and rank as a substitute for what is missing inside. John


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