Veritable Divinity

The Pharisee would walk the streets with his hands
Over his eyes, in order to avoid the sight
Of a beautiful woman or a sinful idol,
Which would catch an ever wandering eye.
Confucius said suffer a woman to drown
Rather than take her by the hand to save her.
For tradition to these men was the way to cleanse souls.
Was Confucius a Pharisee, probably.
However, good, he had concluded, 
Is self evidently so; and good must 
Be part of one's daily habit. For tradition
Finds its root in ancient established laws.
For he saw that goodness established customs
And then those customs would be later core
To the felicity of human government.
Just like Moses' law established justice
So did the law Confucius base his judgments
On establish. For, good is good by the sake
Of its being inherently good. 'tis
A tautology, sufficient in itself;
For reason cannot exist without tautology
Or self evident truth; thus, Confucius based
His philosophy on self evident truths
That man needs to love and so order his
Respect with those filial bonds which are formed
For the sake of human happiness.
Yet, like all men with an ideology
He and the Pharisees forgot the exceptions
To the rules established; that if a rule
Contradicted the course of humanity's love
It was to be rejected; and this is why Christ
Is preeminently divine, that though
Confucius saw the Legalists as fools
He invariably was one. And Christ is not.