Patterned as a jeweled diamond Whose inner perfection Bespoke of an inner strength. Yet such a diamond testified To its own absurdity: " life is meaningless" it said, but yet, "I demand that all perfection be like me." The diamond being perfect Could not understand Its own contradiction. In the name of perfection It bullied others. Bullied like it had been bullied By the father. And what would happen If one day The flaw in the system was admitted? Would like the father suicide be committed? Or would the diamond Going into its own nature Glisten forth?
Irwin R. Shaw - 1981
Mr. B
Patterned as a jeweled diamond
Whose inner perfection
Bespoke of an inner strength.
Yet such a diamond testified
To its own absurdity:
" life is meaningless"
it said, but yet,
"I demand
that all perfection
be like me."
The diamond being perfect
Could not understand
Its own contradiction.
In the name of perfection
It bullied others.
Bullied like it had been bullied
By the father.
And what would happen
If one day
The flaw in the system was admitted?
Would like the father suicide be committed?
Or would the diamond
Going into its own nature
Glisten forth?