Socratic talk a short free verse play

- Oh Nature, how far would you go in your wrath?

- Only to the limit of human chaotic haughtiness!

- Oh Time, how can we use you wisely?

- Only when you understand how complicated and merciless I am.

- Oh Love, how can we keep you forever?

- By changing roles yet keeping values adamant.

- Oh Fairness, how can we achieve you and feel your presence?

- Only by playing with your illusions and mistakes.

- Oh Knowledge, will there ever be end to you?

- I am as endless and vast as the whole Universe and Multiverse.

- Oh Joy, how should we act when we wish to regain you?

- By placing the future over the present, by finding the light of hope in every day, by admiring even the seemingly trivial things.

© Written on 07.07.2021 by Maryna Tchianova


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© Socrates and his detailed biographies from Encyclopaedia Britannica and lectures by New Acropolis foundation Ukraine

© Francesco d'Assisi and Ukrainian Book Institute

© Dante Alighieri Society Ukraine

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