The World

The World The world we live in, free as it may seem smiles at popularity, crowns fame, mocks solitude and scorns ascetics, worships money and dreams of good things, of good looks, of good clothes, professes humility and pity, while looking up at the suns of our times, rich and famous, who look down in turn at the pitiable crowning them in their golden light, the spotlight on the less-fortunate they direct, their situation they pity, invoking the thanks of the Gods above, and the applause of the sycophants, but cruelly, cruelly the world despises hates, begrudges, admonishes and belittles wisdom, and wise men, the intellectual who sticks away from the crowd and asks that the dreamy blanket covering the world be tossed away is dismissed without a second thought, and buried along with the fake news.