A Stoic's Melancholy

Good or bad, pain or pleasure

To flee from one attach to another 

Our wild chase in a maze, 'life' 

A hope to withhold all evil even death

If permitted, by fate, logos or divine

An open choice, rationale dominantur

Who are we to inquire means so plain? 

Order of this vast grand design, pervades boundless and beyond 

Sprang out of primordial chaos setting things in place

Clouded is the mind's eye, binding walls of a pit - a vessel profound 

Witness the whole as you must, a realisation, a lightning 

Nature's might is ever far beyond any compromise 

Attempt to swim against currents, a branded folly

Yet a daring adventure to even try and fail

Grandest of all, our search for good, peace and love

Knowing how matters will unveil at the very end

Coin owns two sides, even thine own palm does

Duality rings all around the living cosmos, acceptance is bliss