Sunday, January 31, 2010

Mystery of Right and Left

What did you have in mind, Chaucer,
When you wrote Canterbury Tales?
Did you mean to give a new meaning
To good and evil as a matter of policy?
Was good meant to allude to Right
And Evil to Left or viceversa’?
Well, whatever you had in mind
People have made their own deductions
And both of them seem to be Right? Wrong?
Half the world is Leftist Half Rightist
There are Left wings and Right wings
Everywhere.
Cars are driven on the left in England and India
On the Right in America and Australia
Latin’s languages are scribed
From Left to Right
Arabic and Persian from Right to Left
Unusually some like the Japanese
scribe from Right to Left as well as
Top to Bottom!
O Chaucer! What made you write
Your Masterpiece?
What motivated you to judge Good and Evil
Without considering their direction?
Right is Rightly good in some places
Left is Rightly good in other
If both Left and Right are Good
Then what’s Evil about?
When ever I look at the clock
(I have looked at the Big Ben too)
It surprises me to note that no one
Has yet noticed why all the Hands
Of this Chronometer are still moving
In the Right Direction
when making them move
From Left to Right would also serve the purpose
Without casting any Evil spell on Time!

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