Devolution?

 
 
I am that
ancient
mariner
 
still rapt in
the
albatross
 
I am that
fool named
Midas
 
with the gold
turned
to dross
 
*
 
Antic echoes
bleed
me
 
conscience
reeks
with flaws
 
weary wears
the
spirit
 
I cannot
spot
due cause
 
*
 
In sunrise
I spy
the sunset
 
in profit
I feel
the loss
 

In all
moods
contrary
 
I am not
the man
I was
 
*
 
Though anarchy
surround
me
 
I still cling
to
laws
 
were I to
be
a rolling stone
 
fain would I
gather
moss
 
*
 
Whence
the dudgeon
buildeth

I am not
who I
once was

 

© R.Kanth 2023

Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).