to school with beavers

 

i enrolled myself at the beaver school

to learn the art of gnawing the tree

grown massive sucking, and sucking

all minerals leaving none to the fragile

shrubs, or the creeping vines around!

those trees have grown gigantic

as the Hawaiian banyan alienating the minute

pushing the little and making them marginal

subverting the small and the humane

making the vital needs of the needy

subordinate to the gluttonous institution!

in that school i did quickly learn

Moses, Amos, John, and even Jesus

had walked those portals training humans

to gnaw, like beavers, the trees, institutions

serving not an authentic growth of the small!

henry victor      10.05.2007

schooling in diplomacy

i have often wondered why Jesus was not schooled

in diplomacy, nor his predecessors took that path
and whom you call to put your word in their mouth
never have the opportunity in art of tact to be drilled!

your providence, i know, have not failed to fill

in every brain the basic wisdom, the common sense
but will not your word make an easy and a smooth sail
if wrapped up well in that skilful human noose!

hence every prophet of yours walks into that Golgotha

bleeding and bleeding to death, an award you bestowed
on Jesus, that innocent man from the ancient Nazareth
who not only spoke your simple word but also lived!