Pessimistic Pearls Of Wisdom Initial Version

To stay oneself, learn way, earn just renown
when 'justice' is a quality much missed,
must cause most optimists to tearful drown
their sorrows where will dares not, won't persist.

The key to lasting happiness is blown
upon the shipwreck tides time often sends
when pomp and circumstance together thrown
confuse, knot, justify, tie means to ends.

Unchanging bliss is but lobotomy
or selfish failure to shed sham disguise,
unchallenged as self-knowledge turns the key
to bar all open source, - scars shutter eyes

to ills that fill this universe of ours,
where 'Nature's children' empathy resist,
where sharing wears a mourning coat, where powers
pall 'sleep, perchance to dream' all soon dismissed.

poem by Jonathan Robin
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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