Showing posts with label pride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pride. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 September 2015

The Philosophical Kid




The Philosophical Kid


The world was a strange place for a little kid,
He used to feel accountable for all that he did.
There was no evil in that world he knew,
Only good. In everyone. That was his view.


Yet, one thing about that child was really odd,
That clothing of all sorts, he'd label them as fraud.
It was a strange fact, very strange indeed,
But the little brain had an explanation for the deed.


For it would change the people he'd recognize,
Not people exactly, their personalities to be precise.
The way they'd walk, and how they'd behave,
It would all confuse the little child so naive.


From casuals to fancy suits and dresses,
Their behavioral changes met his guesses.
Expensive clothing had a serious effect,
The clothes themselves demanded respect!


The child went on and on with his imagination,
He concluded. It was all an act of domination.
With the clothes ironically, the masters,
And the people; slaves of their captors!


People could only behave, he admitted,
The way their fancy clothing permitted.
And obliterated was the idea of men born free,
Enslaved they were since their first clothing thought he.


And while fancy clothes stood by waiting to be adorned,
An innocent little kid, into a philosopher had transformed.

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Sunday, 16 August 2015

The Knight's Night





The Knight's Night


An eerie night,
A gallant knight.
Sat with his horse by a fire,
Dressed in his knightly attire.


And in his lap he had a sword,
The one that he deeply adored.
He sat there, polishing it,
Up and down, bit by bit.


He then ran a finger across its blade,
All enemy weapons it'd outweighed.
And as in it he saw his own reflection,
Of all his wars he had a faint recollection.


Riding his dauntless horse,
And the armour he'd endorse,
All they would see was a flash of light,
Of the gleaming sword and its knight.


As he glided over the battlefields,
Ripping through armours and shields.
All hail the valiant knight they'd say,
And would leave their fears at bay.


But now he'd grown old,
This knight once so bold.
And so did his arrogance and pride,
It had now stretched far and wide.


He then held out his sword upright,
And let it bathe in the moonlight.
It emitted a glistening white glow,
Lightening up the ground below.


He felt superior to everything he knew,
And his pride in himself perilously grew. 
Suddenly, lightening struck the sword he bore,
And that once gallant knight was there no more.


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"Arrogance diminishes wisdom."