Importance of being a Fool | Beyond Poetry - Bong Bong Radio | Royalty Free
Channel: Bong Bong Entertainment
Date: 2022-03-05

Chapter 3 of the First Indian English Poetry Series of Bong Bong Entertainment

Poet - Biswanath Gangopadhyay
Voice - Animesh Banerjee
Recordist, Editing and Poster Design - Tathagata Das
Production Design - Two Fools
Concept & Produced by - Animesh Banerjee
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Poem
——
I was born a fool  
And folly became the badge of my identity

While others knew that I always   
Befooled myself  
I was nowhere near  
To recognize it. 

I did what appeared logical
And that was most illogical
To everybody else
They tucked the Idiot in the job. 

It  started quite early  :
The teacher asked me  :
"What do you like to be "
I replied that I would be
A man loved by All. 

Everybody laughed aloud
For I proved myself a fool. 

Years on its safari  
I grew up young
Others asked:  When?  Where?  How? 
I only asked:  Why? 
And I was dubbed a fool. 

Annals of empires
Stories of wars
Tales of wealth amassed
Saga of lords-and-serfs
All fell flat on me
And people called me
A fool. 

I went to laboratories 
I found marketers ruling there, 
I went to markets only to find  
Green and gray heads had buried
Their selves in ginning and packing
Commodities and serving market  
I went to alma maters to find
Jugglers of rotting texts  
Freezing into palsy  
roving inquirers of truth. 
I went to citadels of worship
To find each calling other "infidel"
I went to workplaces only to find
Compeers gnawing throats.

I told people what I had seen
And they defined me; a fool. 

Dejected and depressed, I trudged along
Till I met a white-haired white-clothed 
Abbot ambulating distance  unknown 
Asked of credential, it was learnt
He was of many fools a prime one  
A Messiah of the millions of fools  
Pioneers of preceding millennia. 

He Told Me We Are Ordained By Nature
To Be Fools,  
We Are Perfect Seers  
As Foolishness Discloses Truth, 
While Derived Letters Conceals. 

Thence I Capitalise On My Follies
For Foolishness is Truth Sublime

And I Am A FOOL.
——

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