Passages

(for Jim Ryan)*
 
We come and go –
life trundles  on:
why must it be so?
 
The good the bad
the unspeakable
all  are  swept in tow
 
* 

What the logos
where the reason(s)
 
conjuring trick
change  of  season(s)
 
Perfidious Nature
mocks our treason(s)?
 
*
 
For all our
vapid turpitude
 
we are yet withal
insanely good
 
*
 
In face of
cruelty
of Fate
 
We lisp
parched praise
and propitiate
 
Devoid rancor,
rue, or hate
 
In Design
so stark perverse
we’re the wonder
of the universe

*who lost his mother at 91

 
[© R.Kanth 2022]

 

Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda, A Day in the Life, and Expiations