Saturday, December 8, 2007

“You are beautiful.”


If lie can be called a lie, and that lie, another lie,

Then lie shall never remain a lie, and nor that lie, a lie.

So, if a lie it is that I tell that I lie about your beauty,

Then there is beauty in that lie, and that lie shall never be a lie.

2 comments:

Marlin Jar said...

Last line takes the cake!

Immediate recollections on reading the first three lines of the poem:
(a)The famous paradoxical statement: 'I'm a liar' and its countless variations;
(b) The Tamil song which goes 'I'm gonna lie now, I'm gonna lie now -- you're a such a beautiful girl'.

Poornima said...

nirmal: that tamil song? hahaha..
unni: I loved the last line