Test not people of a violent nature
The situation calls for plans more mature
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent -4
Test not people of a violent nature
The choice is not that simple: run if you can
The situation calls for plans more mature
Yijing’s ‘Withdraw into your own armature’
May not the violent deter nor you ban
Test not people of a violent nature
Like as not more cunning than immature
Your lofty thoughts and plans put under scan
The situation calls for plans more mature
Not everyone can alter Laws of Nature
Yet it’s everyone’s duty to make a stand
Test not a people of a violent nature
If you let grow your own virtue in stature
The seasons will follow through according to plan
The situation needs no plans more mature
Can evil people cloaked rude in ill-nature
Succeed where violence breeds not in Man
Test not people of a violent nature
The situation calls for plans more mature
Interesting. Throughout history when nonviolent people confront violent people, there has been bloodshed, sometimes horrendous death. But that death, if that is the plan, will galvanize the people to resist violence. For the nonviolent deaths become martyrs for the cause.
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