Posted by Feliks on December 14, 1999 at 05:39:07:
I rarely write poetry, never writing poetry unless required to, but this is a poem I was inspired to write while appreciating how boys in man-boy relationships defy the capitalist society that depends on traditional family and sexual relations. I mean to communicate in the poem that the youngest children are superior to adults in being more open (less unconscious) in mind but that the children are rendered unconscious by class society as they develop.
Feliks
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Our most human fellows
What are our youngest fellows,
Of minds unaffected by our distortions of reality,
Of minds without our contradictions,
our stagnating tendencies in thought, our pacifying "practicality",
Of minds free of suffocating inhibitions,
Of minds not rendered unconscious by our requirements of education,
our religious moralities, our arbitrary impositions,
Of minds embodying revolutionary potential,
Of minds whose power shall be consequential.
They are our youngest fellows but our most human,
They are ours, but their selves are their own;
their dependences they have severed.
Their strength against our antihuman society they have levered.
No form of ours shall withstand their "childish" intensity,
Not our culture, not our family, not any bourgeois propensity.
They are so free in their movement, so having of capability,
And in thought they exhibit a powerful purity.
They are our youngest fellows but our most human.