The Cactus
In joy I will laugh,
In sadness I will weep,
In anguish I will sacrifice;
For passion is blind:
And as poets have written
It is from fools we will learn wisdom.
As I walked by and past
Seeing many roses.. . .
Some I touched, some I smelled
but none had I picked until-
The beauty prevailed
The scent like no other
For passion is blind
so I saw no other
than what I planted in my heart.
Just like a dream I had joy
and in joy I laughed,
But not for long;
For all dreams fade away
so did the laugh to weeping
as I wept in sadness
as I watched the rose change:
From a smooth rose
to a thorny rose
then into a pricking cactus !
Thorns grew day by day
Pricking without rest
towards the destiny of death
and in the heart there was anguish
and in anguish I sacrificed;
part of my heart
torn with the removal of a hurting plant.
I was a fool
So I will write for all to see
To gain wisdom from a fool
a hurting fool who
let his eyes be blinded by passion.