Thursday 19 January 2017

A question Unanswered Benedict Brooke


Twas ‘twixt the jester and the joke

The wise man spoke but no one knew

The history of his sanity

Was virtually untrue

And then he sat with vacant eyes

The shadow of his own surprise

Whilst wisdom newly crowned

Downed another drink and said

“The beauty of being dead is only seen

By those who have once been

Somewhere on the other side-“

Yet isn’t it unfair to hide

The knowledge of one’s own passing?

And in the same breath he denied

Or was he the first man who lied?

That God had ever spoken to him

On some fine and wistful day

Of the majesty of sin...

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