Ode To Victor Hugo (42) 'the Miserable' weighty Questions Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

Weighty and Obscure Questions

Can human nature be ever wholly and radically transformed?
Can the man whom God made Good, be made wicked by man?
Can the Soul be reshaped in its eternity by distiny and made evil because distiny is evil?
Can the heart become misschapen and afflicted with ugly
like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?

Is there not in every human soul, an essential spark,
an element of Divine, indestructible in this world,
and immortal in the next, which goodness can preserve,
norish and fan into glorious flame,
which evil can never quite extinguish? !

Freyad Hugo
(Dutch writer, author, translator, columnist, political analyst, Poet.)
Heerenveen
September,2021