A self explanatory poem that underlines in my own words the age old thought of the insignificance of Man in the entire scheme of Creation, known and beyond. By calling all that compounds Man -- his drives and achievements, an emabarrassment, the suggestion is clear for him to eschew every sense of importance, arrogance, and pride.
Such is the Embarrassment
As wispy, vaporous risings that
Permeate a patch of time and space,
To end, but banished into the vast
And boundless void, all history of
Deeds and graces of every man and
Hominoid will perish, with useless
Strife and struggle for all his beliefs,
His shibboleths and spectral wraiths;
Such, indeed, is the embarrassment
Of human importance, fame and faiths!
From The Unsung Log by Ronnie Patel; (C) Ronnie Patel 2006
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- Ronnie Patel
- Viimsi (Tallinn), Harjumaa, Estonia
- Born in Bombay prior to independence of India from the British, Ronnie Patel spent several years of his life in London of the fifties and sixties. During that time and since, sometimes in turn, sometimes concomitantly, he became company executive, businessman: fashion garments and poultry farming, actor, film-maker, writer and poet. He has lived and travelled extensively round the world for business and pleasure, and has been an exemplary generalist. Except for the occasional forays, he retired from active corporate and business life well over a decade ago, even to shed, at last, the ubiquitous euphemism: consultant. Among his other interests, which include scuba-diving, golf and bridge he has recently taken up oil painting.
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