Inside a weatherbeaten drum, <br />there sat a man, alert but glum. <br />It was, of course, Diogenes, <br />he'd fled the world and its distress. <br />And from the time that he had fled <br />the people came, alive and dead <br />to ask him how to truly live. <br /> <br />He had the answers and would give <br />the best to all who came to see <br />the man inside the drum, so free. <br />And many thousands took advice <br />not knowing how the truth applies <br />to real life, so they stayed dumb. <br />All wisdom stayed inside the drum.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/diogenes/
