T Wignesan Poet Villanelle

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Villanelle: To What Great Good Singular Individuals Sacrificed Their Lives

Villanelle: To what great good singular individuals sacrificed their lives

To what great good singular individuals sacrificed their lives
To free their peoples from the oppressors’ superior mores
Only to find after they’re gone no true local legacy survives

To what great good Mexican peasants seized land archives
When President Zapata refused to administer hard-won laws
To what great good singular individuals sacrificed their lives

To what great good Mahatma Gandhi’s fasting skill revives
The age-old Hindu-Muslim mistrust and Brahmin maws
Only to find after they’re gone no true local legacy survives

To what great good faithful Castro’s will still contrives strives
To keep his Marxist revolution going in open American jaws
To what great good singular individuals sacrificed their lives

To what great good nations boxed in by their leaders’ drives
Go through deprivation depression desolation for saviours
Only to find after they’re gone no true local legacy survives

To cap it all each nation favours some god with inane lies
An excuse to sanctify the nation’s man-made partisan laws 
To what great good singular individuals sacrificed their lives
Only to find after they’re gone no true local legacy survives

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014

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