Denying the just and good,
for the mortals they never should,
for what have they ever stood,
but self and and glory seven fold?

They wonder why we are dying,
yet to the fools they stay tying,
even knowing they’re lying,
blaming the just and good one.

These human heroes change each day,
subject to what they need they say,
but the good stays even when flayed,
never to shame his name.

My Ovi for this weeks prompt of ROLE MODEL and a how I came up with my idea for it and wrote it.

First, I decided to use the SOCIAL IRONY aspect of OVI. I seem to identify with how everything about society can be ironic. IN this particular case, people choose Role Models that will always fail them at some point. Either the role model will reveal they aren’t really someone to follow, or the person doing the following learns and matures in their thinking and own personal development.

For my poem, I used how people use celebrity as a Role Model. Everyone from pro athletes to music stars, politicians to actors. They all fail in some moment because they are human. Just like you and me.

THE WRITING OF THE POEM

Usually unless it’s a Haiku, I’m not wired to think in syllables. But I’ve been writing Haiku for 10 years now. Every time I begin one, my fingers start counting.

With a new form or one that is more geared toward a them, such as the OVI PROMPT is, not necessarily using the words ROLE MODEL within the poem, I might write a full sentence, a full idea, and then I begin to turn a paragraph into a stanza using the most efficient yet strongest words I can.

In the case above, I stated that people decide to deny the example of Jesus and instead turn to examples that are show in media, glamorized and even idolized by those reporting them to us fair citizens. Yeah, some are awesome. But do I idolize them, or put all my faith that the good things about them are a representation of their entirety? Nope.

By the third stanza I’ve said the human role models are changeable based on needs, whims, and changes of mind and situation. But with Jesus, he never changed, all the way to the cross. Is that fact of fiction? Well, that depends on who you ask, who has done research, and who just plain either wants to believe or doesn’t want to.

THE OTHER POSSIBLE INTERPRETATION

For some you can read the poem as being about a person you picked as being right, who was looked over or denied for the flashy and loud, but who change as need be to remain popular, while your person stays the same and holds fast to their convictions.