Fable of Diogenes ~ Giovanni Castiglione

Two Cynics

Part 1: Cynical Criticism

So - you went to war and saw some things?

Well, suck it up; that's what war brings!

Don't come crying 'bout the things you've done

I've got no pity for weak-willed scum!

Friends killed. Sad... Yep sad is true

but there's nothing you can bluddy do

so quit the tears and wipe your nose;

there ain't no vase for a dried out rose.

The war is over, finished, done

you lost - you want to blame someone?

Well look inside the history book

My name ain't there - go take a look

But you were there all brave and brash

the worst wound you got was just a rash

and still you wonder what went wrong...

And you! You dare to wear a gong!

I've had enough of your tears and woes

You're a pitiful form from head to toes

Stand like the man you used to be

and don't come whinging back to me.

Part 2: Critical Cynicism

Yes - I went to war and saw some things;

I sucked it up and hid my sins.

I'm not crying 'bout the things I done

but for the sadness yet to come.

Friends dead... too right, but you can't see

how I wish THEY were alive - not me!

You cannot see the bloody stain

indelibly tattooed on my brain!

The years have gone and the war is done

but don't you bluddy call me scum.

You admit that you weren't over there

so how the hell can you know despair!

Yes I WAS there - brave and brash

and yes I got a rancid rash;

would you like to see it now?

Forty years and it's still there somehow!

You attack me from the cynic's throne

and taunt me with facts you've grown.

Your diatribe spits in my eye

You've had enough?! Well so have I!

Copyright June 22, 2005 by Anthony W. Pahl

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