Villanelle for our time - LC

From bitter searching of the heart quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part   This is the faith from which we start man shall know common wealth again from bitter searching of the heart   We love the easy and the smart but now with keener hand and brain we rise to play a greater part   The lesser loyalties depart and neither creed nor race remain from bitter searching of the heart   Not steering by the venal chart that tricked the mass for private gain we rise to play a greater part   Reshaping narrow law and art whose symbols are the millions slain from bitter searching of the heart we rise to play a greater part