Closed eyes see best But suffer mistrust and fear Closed eyes feel best But no matter its painful tear It matters not to the open rest II The elders say Children can climb the tallest trees And will never be able to see the needed Wrinkled old men sit behind closed doors With closed eyes […]
I They call me the happiest man. They say I’m the definition of happiness. But they don’t know my sadness If they knew. A man who has no worries they assume Saying worriers and I are parallel lines But they don’t know my worries If they knew The man who kills both a lion and […]
This leaf is raddled Saddled by the reigns of ageing Ageing which happily flaunts its job To the fascination of time And takes ridiculing as its compliment This leaf is raddled Raddled though it is It has seen all shades of the sun; Mild, seductive, angry, angered, and frightening But none blinded it […]
When age married the deadly death They arranged all grown beings to the shore for their honeymoon Because death doted on his wife Now the legs of time has travelled an untraceable path He hunts the young and brings them home His wife lovingly advise age meals Carnivorous death stresses some youthful beings “I am […]
“Oh what a withered being” I wasn’t, I once bloomed in many attractive colours “Look, what a toothless mouth” It wasn’t, I had a very beautiful set of chewers “Oh Gosh! What a shivering body” I wasn’t, I had the strength of an ox And was revered by my peers None could compare in my […]
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