A myth may better be than truth
Stripping Santa Clause of the crown of God
Would scarce him a lesser-loved old man make,
Nor faulting Truth Fairy to face vile fraud,
They are not they are for mere title's sake;
Some myths that motivate, inspiring youths,
Far better be than fire-betested truths.
Armstrong was always strong, doping or not,
He has done to the world a world of good,
Rekindling hearts of those by cancer wrought,
That they fight, life cured of old attitude;
Starved is the world of such role models rare,
O to challenge hard truths with unique dare.
Scarce is the world at war with fairness creams,
Hair transplants, nor cosmetic skin routine—
To look nigh better yon natural means,
Nor is seeding by tube satanic sin;
The world's fine with photo-shopped touch-up look,
Images cooked ere loaded on Facebook.
But a li'le trace of banned drug is too much,
To one not live who'd with crippling crutch.
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Lance Armstrong, the holder of many a cross-country
Cycling world records, who defeated debilitating
fatal disease like cancer with sheer will power to fight
with it, and was an inspiration to thousands of
cancer patients, apart from today's youth in general,
was recently stripped of all his titles in a USADA's
witch hunt.
The poem is set in a peculiar sonnet format into three
Stanzas of six, six, and eight lines, each one a small
Sonnet with a couplet in the end in the form of a volta.
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- Happenings (Satire) | 11.09.12 |
poem by Aniruddha Pathak
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