Presumptuous to speak the obvious?
If only what we see is not as such.
Then all presumptions truly weigh not much.
Investigations make demands of us.
With every word the world is on to us.
Their weight of stares requires of us a crutch,
analysis of meanings and of such,
until of reasonings they empty us.
No man lies naked splayed before strange eyes.
He wears the clothing made in current style,
to give illusion pleasing to the world.
And so the world peels back the layered lies,
and lays them in a neatly gentle pile,
until the truth of man is full unfurled.
(C)2013, Christos Rigakos
Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 at 12:00 AM UTC
Presumptuous to speak the obvious?
If only what we see is not as such.
Then all presumptions truly weigh not much.
Investigations make demands of us.
With every word the world is on to us.
Their weight of stares requires of us a crutch,
analysis of meanings and of such,
until of reasonings they empty us.
No man lies naked splayed before strange eyes.
He wears the clothing made in current style,
to give illusion pleasing to the world.
And so the world peels back the layered lies,
and lays them in a neatly gentle pile,
until the truth of man is full unfurled.
(C)2013, Christos Rigakos
Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet
