FIGHTING A FOOL

FIGHTING A FOOL


To fight or to keep quiet,
Is what we must decide.
World is full of friends and foes;
By all, we can’t abide.

We have got to fight back when
A wicked, vile person
Tramples on our feet and does
Snatch our wallet and run.

But if one just calls us names
And argues like a fool
Questioning our right to speak
He breaks gentlemen’s rule.

Debates or fights ought to be
Only amongst equals.
Wise and fool, saint and a thief,
Can never be rivals.

Faced with a situation
Where ignorance is bliss,
Better to let the fool whine
Than take his rants amiss.


• Written in abcb, 7-6-7-6 syllabic format.


M C Gupta
25 March 2009