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Nelson D Reyes

emperor’s new clothes... nth time edition

...good news is the Boston Celtics won the NBA 2024 games...

emperor’s new clothes... nth time edition
 
...poem inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Emperor’s New Clothes” written in 1837  aptly incisive today...
 
emperor’s new clothes... nth time edition
 
 
 
 
not to embarrass the townspeople
in their heart of hearts the crowd
need to see the emperor’s new clothes
 
been anticipating the coming spectacle
the rumors of a smart gilded new clothes
 
the master work the weavers fashioned
in a remote camp gazebo for a parade
 event
 
the new clothes a splendid rococo
will exude power subjects will bow
the seamstresses tell the emperor
 
from the grapevines the crowd keeps up
  with the pretense
that the magnificent outfit exists... worn
  by the emperor
 
waving smiling under a canvas canopy
held by four footmen the emperor parades
through the town sporting a smart
  dazzling regal clothes
 
but lo! a child points out... screams...
“he is naked! not wearing any clothes!”
 
Merlin’s power broken he vanished from
  the scene
 
the vanity of power gilded pretense
the dangers of sucking up to drunk
  enablers
the like minded party members
 nefarious denizens hogs wallowing
in bottomless pit of deceits of power
  pathetically not bulletproof
 
a Socrates magical innocent know
  nothing sweet child
outside the spell of adult insanity schemes
simply excited saw what he saw literally
the naked emperor parading before the
  gaslighted townspeople
 
***
©ndr 07.02.2924
Photo: iStock online

...of losing sight of what actually is worth caring about trying to influence others... better to be free from vanity... be honest... truthful... undressed... yes be naked ironically for the truth not to gaslight with embellished “invisible clothes”...

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