A Clear And Present Danger

About this poem

German ideologues Engels and Marx, Hungarian Marxist theorist Georg Lukacs, and Chinese revolutionary and Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, had a common goal: disruption, transformation, transmogrification, and abolition (German: Aufhebung) of the prescribed traditional nuclear family structure of husband and wife. In our twenty first century, this ideological movement has intensified to the extent that it currently invites lifestyles of living and cohabitation that run contrary to traditional concepts of marriage that have long been considered and accepted as the norm, supplanting these norms with alternative arrangements of cohabitation intended to abolish traditional family lifestyles. These ideological, revolutionary movements, labeled ignominiously and ironically as “same-sex” marriages and, in some cases, as “Black Lives Matter” but with similar ideological intentions and intimidation, have garnered international political support, inviting individuals of all ages, including school children, to consider and to make choices concerning self-identification of gender that often run counter to the genetic realities of gender differences and to the established scientific basis of biological gender in humans determined by chromosomal pairings. Because of current worldwide ideological movements that invite moral capitulation and are fanned by sympathetic entrepreneurs, politicians, and legislators, America and the entire world are at an unethical and immoral precipice (ironically a precipice of judgment) that, without a recognition for or consideration of repentance, could result in the doom of modern civilization and its accomplishments of common decency (Reference: 2 Chronicles 7:14). This one-stanza Tanka poem is composed in the form of a Confessional Poem that invites all of humanity to engage in soul searching concerning the personal and societal goals and intentions of human civilization. We all stand at a precipice of moral injustice with the legacy of the future in our entire hands. more »