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Naskar’s Folly (The Sonnet – for July 4th) | Abhijit Naskar | World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
If your perception doesn’t evolve with time,
It’s not a sign of conviction but cowardice.
So in this sonnet I take it upon myself,
to correct my own early follies.
In one of my early works I called America,
“a great country, built by great people,”
while the harsh humanitarian fact of earth is,
America is a terrorist nation, built by criminals.
I once naively asked to ‘appreciate the soldiers’,
while unintentionally undermining peace-activism.
That one line has been eating me alive, until
in 2023 I declared, “military is legal terrorism.”
Own up your follies, use them to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.
It’s not a sign of conviction but cowardice.
So in this sonnet I take it upon myself,
to correct my own early follies.
In one of my early works I called America,
“a great country, built by great people,”
while the harsh humanitarian fact of earth is,
America is a terrorist nation, built by criminals.
I once naively asked to ‘appreciate the soldiers’,
while unintentionally undermining peace-activism.
That one line has been eating me alive, until
in 2023 I declared, “military is legal terrorism.”
Own up your follies, use them to sharpen your conviction.
Mistakes acknowledged are the beginning of illumination.
Don’t Hide Your Past (The Sonnet) | Abhijit Naskar | The Humanitarian Dictator
The first few minutes of my first
stage talk were absolute disaster.
First few books were mere intellectual
commentary, lacking in original Naskar.
Don’t beat yourself up for the
follies of your early years.
Doesn’t matter, you made mistakes,
what counts is, you outgrew your errors.
If a life claims a flawless history,
rest assured, it’s a concoction of lies.
Flawlessness is mark of lifelessness,
to be alive means to be battered by cries.
Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity,
they wire your unique perception in place.
Absence of error is the end of living sanity,
to fabricate your past is to obliterate yourself.
stage talk were absolute disaster.
First few books were mere intellectual
commentary, lacking in original Naskar.
Don’t beat yourself up for the
follies of your early years.
Doesn’t matter, you made mistakes,
what counts is, you outgrew your errors.
If a life claims a flawless history,
rest assured, it’s a concoction of lies.
Flawlessness is mark of lifelessness,
to be alive means to be battered by cries.
Mistakes are the cornerstones of clarity,
they wire your unique perception in place.
Absence of error is the end of living sanity,
to fabricate your past is to obliterate yourself.
