Sonnet: Nothing Feeds On Itself Like Violence

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Sonnet: Nothing feeds on itself like violence Nothing feeds on itself like violence The more it self-destructs the more its might Goya geek – padi eaten by its own fence* The dog that swallows its own tail in fright Yet nothing changes fast as when throttled Takes the weight of one’s whole life to wake up Many the night Dopplegänger dreams rattled Will the hand that wields the chopper back up To see the other severed from body Since violence begins in thoughts at will Who can hold it back once in thoughts born free The root cause of violence springs despite will Envy and hatred begin in the eyes And stick in the head right until one dies • Pagar makan padi: Malay for : The fence eats the padi/rice; meaning, treachery (where trust is betrayed). © T. Wignesan – Paris, 2015

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