Diogenes on
Looking Around
by George A. Renn
Diogenes searched
for an honest man
By daylight, lantern in hand.
From years squinting for one worthy of
the prize
He soon needed dark glasses to protect
his eyes.
How much integrity would he have seen
Even using an incandescent halogen beam?
When Alexander the Great stood in his
sight,
With irony Diogenes called, ‘Stand
out of my light.’
Said Great, “The gods decreed who I
would be,
By choice, my life would be as Diogenes.”
Diogenes wore out his shoes and grew
blisters
Searching for ever-honest females and
misters.
Diogenes never needed such rays:
Those honest illuminate their own way. |
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