What can I say, I’m no sage
Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, I’m not on that page,
They’re all Greek to me, and that lingo I don’t know
If it was Hamlet, I’d be on that stage.

They were masters of Philosophy, so I am told
That branch of the tree, leaves me cold,
No roots, no trunk, no bark, whatever
All airy-fairy and, on that I’m not yet fully sold.

I’m all for logic, that simple stuff we all know
Like gravity, and why things I throw all fall below
My feet, and why two plus two always make four
And, why the warmth in our hearts will not melt snow.

Why smiles on faces their own stories tell
And frowns reveal the internal pell- mell,
Why things we see we still call fake
And, the Invisible stories we constantly sell.

Why all we do now is full of deceit
Spurred by Ego and our own self- conceit,
Brotherhood and Fellowship, mirages all
The flip side of Victory is another’s defeat.

You decide what is good for another
What gives you that power, my dear brother,
You’re not infallible, no god on Earth
No angel from above, no right to smother.

Doctrines are doctrines and all man-made
Produced in minds and then tailor-made,
To suit a set of vested beliefs and ideas
Then spread in stages, like a cascade.

Never has the world been in such tremor and turmoil
The Earth shaking everywhere, volcanoes on the boil,
As ordinary folks live their unquestioned, destined, lives
By the sweat of their brows, by honest toil.

So much for the great Masters and their discourses
It’s only now about grabbing and securing resources,
Land, air, sea or the heavens and beyond
And this is really true, tell me my sources.

Read what you will, it’s all the same
Each Medium plays its own conniving game,
We all know who spoke of the sweetness of a Rose
Juliet said it, and Montague was the name.

Can’t argue with the great and only Bard
He, who seemed to hold every trump card,
Wish peaceful stars shine on all Mankind
And hope, no one, but no one, is again ill -starred.

(The author is a prolific poet who has over 30 poetry books to his credit. He can be reached at ashoksawhny06@gmail.com/ www.ashoksawhny.com)