A FOOL’S MESSAGE
K. V. Ramana Rao
(“Abandon all learning, you will be free from trouble and distress” – Laotse)
This fool’s raw stuff of ignorance is
far safer
Than your barren husk of knowledge,
ego polished,
Falstaffs and Bottoms are ever far
far happier
With their “Plentiful lack of wit”,
so by Nature furnished.
Your Knowledge came along, life wept,
from your Edens
Exiled, here you have discovered
quasars and blackholes!
Your knowledge triumphed, brought
weightier burdens,
Blasted your peace, dug deeper graves for your souls.