Mirror mirror, show us all.
Who was the greatest fool of them all?
~
Once upon a time,
there was a
jester
who took the fall everyday
for the rest of his days.
His details pinned to the wall of shame,
his entire life was documented for somebody else’s fame.
A wide belly and a caked face,
he was stripped of identity and grace,
just an anonymous figure designed
to trigger mere muscle movement.
The court enjoyed him during the working hours, ignored him during the rest.
But the man he was, spent his prime hours
with his very own jester of two years old,
who performed just for an audience limited to two;
his chronically ill mother
and her joke of a husband.
~
Once upon a time,
there was a
lover
who had a nightmare
of his life draining into the abyss,
of a fight where
he wouldn’t survive the ice cold depths
of a heart, rare
enough to drive away the warmth of his
affection, a tear
in their book together that leads to losing the other forever.
And when the prophecy finally came true,
he didn’t simply accept his fate.
Instead, he chased after the sun even after sunset,
he chased after hope even after it got lost,
he chased after his dream
even into the real world.
But the vision once ignored
led to their pages never being found.
~
Once upon a time,
there was a
dog
who lost her sight.
Her friends pitied her plight,
but did not care enough to fight
against this nature, against her flaw, against a failure.
her reliability reduced to nothing
meant her eminent demise would do something
to help her anguish, sorry
to help them leave her, so hurry
they did, to get her to a safer heaven
which is anywhere but their residence.
Oblivious to the truth in front of her,
she didn’t even back away
when the doctor came with his mercy.
In spite of all, in her last moments,
their tolerance for a cripple only ended up reducing her life
and not her trust.
~
Reader reader, you know them all.
Now who’s the greatest fool of us all?
Written by Sanjay Kumar
Picture courtesy : Joe Jackson – Fool (album cover), Google
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