Truth Needs No Tailor Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

I'm scared of truths that come in half,
As of those that weigh one and half,
Add to them truths told on behalf,
Said nor by horse, nor yet by calf,
And a house of cards does it fall,
The wordsmiths whatso may it call.

A joke missing the crucial half,
I've found, is not worth half a laugh,
As is half a punishing staff,
Progress painted in half a graph,
As humour that hoists up a wall
No mirth is worth its laugh at all.

Today's David's being too dwarf,
No goliath's can take by half!
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Sonnets | 03.02.04 |