Quandary

Aug 29 2010 Filed in: Jims Poems
Quandary
 
What should the strong
Do with the weak?
Should they devour them?
Should they protect them?
Should they own them and use them?
And what should the weak
Do about the strong?
Should they avoid them?
Should they challenge them?
Should they conspire against them
Like the legions of Lilliput?
 
And what should the soul
Do for the body
And the body for the soul?
Should the body make gods
In its own image,
And should the soul
Deceive the body?
 
Perhaps Nietzsche was right
And all life is the will to power,
For the powerless thing
Is lifeless after all,
And a man spends his life
Scratching at doors
That promise more life
Behind them.