Letters to the Editor
View(s):To catch the conscience
(for Richard de Zoysa)
This breaking of a young and vibrant life
Can be no act of God.
So then what meaning
In this play of ours?
Do wanton ones dispose of us in sport?
We are not toys
Our severing is no game
And I – an unbeliever – need a theme.
I’ll find it yet
And trace a young man’s part,
The villain know, who had the Lion’s heart.
He could have kept
The cover of the mime
Or lulled us with the glory of his voice.
Instead, compassion forced him write the lines
Of tragedy, his last and greatest part.
We see the skull –
For we are much possessed –
As molten fingers ravel back the skin.
And each one knows
The time has long since passed
When he, with confidence, can say:
`This is the last.’
Manel Fonseka
(Written February 25, 1990, four days after his cremation on an open pyre)
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