Master or servant? – A Knight’s Dilemma
Una dintre cele mai vechi relatii care au existat in aceasta lume a fost aceea de servitudine. Inca din vremuri antice, exista un Stapan si un servitor. Fie ca acel stapan era un patrician ori un senator roman, el reprezenta autoritatea, bogatia sau intelepciunea. Insa, de a lungul timpului, notiunea de servitor s-a denaturat, ajungandu-se la tratarea servitorilor ca pe niste bunuri. Mai popular spus, acestia erau sclavii.
Insa majoritatea preferau libertatea. Iar aceasta preferinta, neobisnuita la vremea aia, a generat nenumarate morti. Ideologia s-a pastrat. ‘Mai bine morti, dar liberi, decat vii dar captivi in propria noastra viata’.
Din aceste ganduri, a luat nastere noua mea poezie, care sper sa va trezeasca macar o intrebare, daca nu o dilema, in constiinta voastra…
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From dusk ‘till dawn, we will ride on,
Like the wind of change, we shall smite them in rage,
With our heart true, we choose death over you.
Thou shall not take our freedom,
Nor cloud our vision;
Even if it means a death in martyrdom…
‘Tis better to die free,
Than be a slave in one’s memory
Though chains and shackles tighten and grapple,
Our will shall never fade.
And many will remember the story
Of the wicked ones, who basked in glory.
Ones who did not take on, forced by tyrants,
The form of a slave.
For ‘tis better to remember thee,
Who did not bow to the enemy.
Pride and death, the final solace;
Slavery and life, the first of many torments
That already plague and wither,
Crushing the will, making the soul bitter.
The Master commands, the servant obeys
‘Tis the cycle of life, and so it stays.
“Only one question remains,
And I shall leave thou to your affairs:
Should you someday have power and gains,
Will you treat yourself and others
As the Master or the servant?
Think upon this, you should,
Dare I say, becoming one of them, you could…”
