An Iron Mask

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Si mon esprit n'était pas si corrompu et si mon corps était pas utilisé, je voudrais savoir
comment aimer...................................

 

If my mind was not so corrupt and if my body was not used, I would like to know

how to love ...................................

 

 

My mind is corrupt

only because that's what you tell me

My body is used

Only because you tell me it’s used

That is your way of sidestepping my question

Which quite simply is

I would like to know how to love

 

It is you who have placed me in this iron mask

It is you who have welded and fashioned it

It is you who has the distorted view

Not me at all!

 

Why do you place upon a man’s shoulders

Burdens that are impossible to bear?

Why do you charge us with corruption and use?

It is you who are corrupt in all your ways

It is you who uses!

Your Body makes use of us all!

 

You know something my friend?

I don’t subscribe to all this devil notion

But I do like that saying a friend wrote

When I first came to England in 2001

 

The stench of religiosity

Dogma and prejudice;

The cause of wars and holocaust,

Bigotry and venom;

When satan dons the robes of a priest

And plays the role he loves the most

- a priest!

 

He said more too that let’s you off the hook

my dog-collared friend!

But ponder those words well

and you might then help

in the quest for salvation

You might well help

in removing this mask of iron

 

Away with you!

 

KTW (IBM) DR

Liverpool and Paris

 

 

© Kenneth Thomas Webb © Dragan Ražnatović
Composed on 10 January 2014
All Rights Reserved
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11 July 2021
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© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022


Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.