Complexities Poem by Chan Mongol

COMPLEXITIES
Poem by Chan Mongol
July 5 of 2021


In drawing pictures, we were so straight and simple;
We made images of the Sun, moon, stars, cattle.
Ours were of the elephant, horse, goat, cow;
Of dog, cat, man, woman, paddy, plow!
We drew pictures of school and homes in the village;
Trees, papayas, mangoes, fields, leaves, pathways.
Whatever we did, we did with reality and natures;
We didn't hand on chemicals and weird caricatures.
We greeted older people at the first sight;
Now, to talk to strangers isn't at all alright.
We drew then banana, coconut, fire, water, river;
Ours were to draw pencil, book, table, chair.
Things change from simplicities to complexities;
From natural life to poisonous chemical industries.
You will not know a modern art right away in observation;
It takes different study to get to know zigzag education.