Ode To Victor Hugo (7)‘the Miserable' Amusing Bishop(Vanity) Poem by Freeyad Ibrahim

Ode To Victor Hugo (7)
The Miserable Amusing Bishop
(VANITY)
By: Freeyad Ibrahim

Upon receiving a letter informing him
of the death of a local gentry
Which set forth many titles of nobility
He exclaimed O my dear:
Death has a broad back to bear.
What a great load it can be made
How assiduous are the minds of men
that they can use even the Tomb
in the service of vanity?
Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
As we are told by the great poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley who wisly wrote
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay!
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
But don't forget as Shakespeare has told
All that glitters is not Gold

Hugo's vanity is another vanity
Death vanity, tomb vanity,
hypocrisy added to vanity
Double vanity, assiduous vanity
Hugo has put Shelley's sneer
to his local gentry's vanity

Freyad Hugo
Heerenveen