09.08.2014, 14:17
FUTILITY
WHEREFORE this arduous and unyielding strife
To garner love and cling to happiness
Against the use of nature ? In what life
Moves a glad pulse unwitting of distress ?
Is honesty a bar to crime's offence ?
Doth truth prevail like treacherous deceits ?
Can the soul curb the ever eager sense
That lures the body to unholy feats ?
Will innocence disarm conspiracy ?
Or weakness move compassion in the strong,
When the last breath escapes, and the last sigh
Fails on the lips ? All seems compact of wrong ;
Yet our brave souls endure, nor cease to hope
Though slipping down the inevitable slope.
WHEREFORE this arduous and unyielding strife
To garner love and cling to happiness
Against the use of nature ? In what life
Moves a glad pulse unwitting of distress ?
Is honesty a bar to crime's offence ?
Doth truth prevail like treacherous deceits ?
Can the soul curb the ever eager sense
That lures the body to unholy feats ?
Will innocence disarm conspiracy ?
Or weakness move compassion in the strong,
When the last breath escapes, and the last sigh
Fails on the lips ? All seems compact of wrong ;
Yet our brave souls endure, nor cease to hope
Though slipping down the inevitable slope.