Ode To Victor Hugo (35) the Miserable -(Use Yourself While You Have Yourself) Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

I can suffer or enjoy
I have made my choice
One can eat or be eaten
One can be Tarzan's cheeta
or can be the horse of Troy
And I would sooner go to eat
I let myself not to be eaten
To beat not to be beaten
It is better to be teeth than to be grass,
to be a metal than to be glass
In the end whatever you do
All the same, who is who
To do is the same as not to do
It makes me laugh with joy
I don't let myself to be fooled
by make -believe, or be dulled
Yet there are some who need it
The poor, the under-fed
The down -and-outs,
Those who live in darkness
Alone on a wooden bed
And those who have got nothing
We give them mythes to feed on
The man who has nothing else has God
Thing is better than nothing

Freyad Hugo
Heerenveen
September,2021