MAN: Pretence—What else is it? Dear poet, you tell me, Your fames, your glory All a sheer pretence. [And I sat numb, bewildered As the young procrastinator went on With his flurry of grievances ] MAN: You built characters after characters Sorrows, pains, love and life. Did you ever value them! On the icicle of human emotions You had built your fragile monument Wordy and worldly. Tell me Monsieur Didn’t you have the fear of Crumbling unto dust ? POET: Err…Look son… [And He was Kept shut As the silence prevailed With a quarrelling supremacy And awkward dearth of explanation. And the wise old man reddened A bit.] MAN: How do you word in a Bereaved mother’s true emotion? Or a lover’s inspiration May b even a sadist’s pessimism? How ...
Some Memories are hard to hold on So I put them on words.