Ozymandias! Where is your mighty works?

I must say I'm not really an admirer of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Most of his poems I feel is a great deal of incredulity and a great deal of egocentric-ism. His polygamous nature and self-righteousness is perhaps his worse crime in my eyes. He was one of those sublime egoists with a strong moralizing bent, who assume that others have a duty not only to fit in with but to applaud his decisions, and when they fail to do so quickly display a sense of outrage towards them. Although I could say my abhorrence of this Man could also be because, I have had to deal with Men of Bysshe Shelley's character all my life. But in all his works, I must admit there is one poetic product of his that I find very startling,and its truth very revealing. And that is 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 works, 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".

This poem speaks volumes to those who feel the world should revolve around. Those who cherish thier jobs, fame, academic titles, instead of the love and attention they should be giving and sharing where it matters most, family, friends and the ones that walks in and out of our everyday lives. And allow thier love for humanity to be dwarfed by the quest for the mundane and pointless of this world. We must bear in mind, we will not live forever and at the end, it is our treatment of our fellow human being that will matter in the sight of God. Always bear it in mind, "When you get to the top, there is nothing there"