Some embrace mastery, some charity

Some embrace mastery, some charity.
These are the antipodes of politics.
Mastery commands, and new things come to be.
Charity brings sympathy into the mix.
Some embrace mastery, some charity. 

Conservatives and liberals look askance
at one another and forget that power
and love must coexist.  It is arrogance
to think the root can ripen without the flower.
Some embrace mastery, some charity.