The Tale of Ozymandias

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:
‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear;
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my work, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’

~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

A poem so delightful to anyone who learns to recognize the essence, the core and the truth in life. Vanity rules on man's earthly work, thus leaving a hollow gap for any spiritual exploration...Darkness blinds mortal modern lives, and escapism becomes more dreanced in the spase of memory...

Shelly well establishes transcendental themes within his poem on how Man will always boast on his achievements, the lout, the land, the gold, the power! However mighty the human ambition may be though, every one can see that in the end all will lead to despair,to the absolute nothingness of the soul instead. For earthly accomplishments, relinquish the body of now, and not the soul of the Future.

"I am Ozymandias; Kings of Kings!", so he exclmais...with such proud gleam in his face that even the richest of men will be envious. But is that all? Ozymandias is just a flesh, that will soon come to pass and that will soon be long forgotten on this earthly land. Therefore what is the point of all this greed?

Ambition drives the people who have darkness inside of them....Hope drives the ones with light in their soul...Therefore Ozymandias should be nurtured in our Souls as the ultimate task of Man to strive for the unexplicable, the illogical, the divine and the holy.

For "nothing beside remains"....