The Fen and Kingdom
Esthetic arts and ample wisdom
Upon a sullied fen and a gemmed kingdom
Sullied fen, how filthy you are!
Beauty has fled and is now afar
We seek wisdom, it is to be found
Not among what your grime surrounds
They left the fen, how selfish within
Here, the shallowness of mankind begins
If only they’ve seen the glamour it holds
Wisdom within, wisdom to unfold…
Wealth and gold, marvels of life!
Upon the kingdom’s crown were rife
It lay somewhere among the attire
Yet it was neither wisdom nor satire
O kingdom it was wisdom you claimed!
One your prosperity and wealth have tamed
Beguiled they were by the gilded reign
They now believed it was wisdom’s terrain
They have failed to see, How shallow is sight?
Beauty has just demolished insight…
“Insight is beauty… Beauty is not insight”
Copyright © Farah Chamma | Year Posted 2008
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