I am a complete hypocrite, <br />I can hide Truth with ideas bright. <br />I am cunning, I am civilized, <br />Counterfeit truth I have baptized. <br /> <br />Naked truth I can't face, <br />I believe in stylized grace. <br />Of body's beauty I feel ashamed, <br />It conceals in tinsel attire framed. <br /> <br />Honey tongue and a heart of gall, <br />The world to me an easy prey fall. <br />Season's sense the sex has lost, <br />Its Nature assigned role is frost. <br /> <br />Nature's gifts I have moved to zoo, <br />From top to bottom artifice I woo. <br />Craftily the flora and the fauna effaced, <br />Them Teddy bear, fake flowers replaced. <br /> <br />On weekends the gardens don't attract, <br />For sunbath the beeches are not the tract. <br />Of time for these I am hard prest, <br />Casino culture is my sole interest. <br /> <br />For singing birds I can't pause, <br />My ears are now tuned to jazz. <br />Morning's freshness I forgo. <br />I am used to late night show(s) . <br /> <br />I am more ferocious than the beast <br />On Nature's burial I do feast, <br />Human bombs are my new feat, <br />All cruelties I now beat. <br /> <br />I don't look at my balance sheet, <br />How long shall I myself cheat. <br />I would better be a pagan now, <br />To nudist culture I shall bow. <br /> <br />The Buddha, the Mahavira and the Christ <br />With the naked Truth they had a tryst; <br />All embellishments they threw off, <br />The so called civilization they scoff(ed) .<br /><br />C. P. Sharma<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-am-civilized/
