The Mystery of the Akimbo man

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What is the biggest mystery of all?

Is it the lost city of Atlantis

Or maybe the sealed treasures of vault B

But I think- I have found one right up there

In a large mansion, in the dead centre

Of a gigantically green round garden,

There hangs a portrait, left to verandah

Of what seems to be king or of such class

A fine smiling horse of the finest breed

Laden with the king or rivals of such rich,

Donning a costume brighter than most stars,

Feet filled in Surya namaskar-ing shoes

And a dressed moustache like drawing a bridge

So the people can cross the river like life,

With an overcast of threaded eyebrows

Over eyes that reveal the concealed truth

The eyes are crying but the body is not,

And the akimbo stance is but a mould

One that has moulded him in permanence

When he wanted to be his own potter

Sad over the manlihood stereotype?

Or the cobblestone laid when his path was Grass-

Maybe there exists many versions of-

'The mystery of the akimbo man'

~Ajay
7/10/17

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