Minds with different impressions
Eyes are of divergent quality visions
Mouths are of same but antithetic confessions
One thinks of Corona; another of secrets
Even with open eyes, we transmit different wits
To the world; world of colourful summits
My mask; behind it, I laugh and gasp
Like Moses in eyes of Pharaoh's asp
Growing rhetorical in my own silent rasp
Who did Corona and scientist take God for?
May be it would be difficult for Him to restore
And deliver the world He owns to the very core
Behind every mask lies fear
Even doctors' concerns shrinks to bear
And every lost soul let loose our cheap tear
I wonder if my mask is enough a credible care
In memory of covid 19
Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 64
Cogito ergo sum: I LIE therefore I AM
Even if I lie Nothing’s more certain than Death
Not Birth Not Life Nor this Multi-Verse logjam
Does not violence invoke much pain loss all damn
Intended or not openly or in lethal stealth
Cogito ergo sum: I LIE therefore I AM
Is not violence the excess worlds condemn
And which by default attains the body’s health
Not Birth Not Life Nor this Multi-Verse logjam
Any movement in any direction breaks dam
Can Qian rape Kun to make for eternal Death
Cogito ergo sum: I LIE therefore I AM
Is Death the Tao of non-action in I AM
No change without movement antithetic Death
Not Birth Not Life Nor this Multi-Verse logjam
Can the human mind find stillness in space maelstrom
Wish for NOTHING wholly want but Ultimate Death
Cogito ergo sum: I LIE therefore I AM
Not Birth Not Life Nor this Multi-Verse logjam
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2016
I guess i never will actually understand, i guess i am just antithetic
The quintessence i see
The quintessence i know
The quintessence i feel, all beyond my control
To be oblivious would be angelic, live my life identical to all the planet
Just close my eye's and pretend
Imagine the world as it was intentionally planned
Go through life with blinders as they say so the pain will go away
Ignore the hurt inside my soul
Just pretend that i am whole, and no one will ever know
But inwardly i will know
The intent to increase till i can no longer sleep
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