Loss of Face



In days of yore, I wore my crown,
A master of healin’ craft renowned.
Alas, time has rac’ed, my edge has dull’d,
In clinic's hyper lane, been bludgeon’d and pull’d.

Once a guru’s guru, now a novice's gaze is too much to bear,
Tru’ relevance now seems much to dare.
Innovator's surge, a tidal wave so grand,
Swept away my prowe’s, like a pebble on the sand.

Oh, the medicine man’s note that's now Greek [or Japanese?] to me,
Cryptic jargon, a baffling sea.
Once held in esteem, now left to squirm,
Lost in the jumble, like a tangled worm.

But fear not, for laughter is my repri’ve,
As I navigate this unchart’d sieve.
A relic of past, with wisdom intact,
I'll chuckle at life's quirky act.

So here's to losing my face with grace,
Embracing change in this worldly race.
Relevance may wane, expertise may fade,
But humor and humility never evade.

About this poem

Becoming marginalized and losing "rank" in a rapidly moving corporatized workplace, of loss;

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Submitted by manik.86465 on September 07, 2023

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Scheme XAAA BBCC DDEE FFGG HHII
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 869
Words 177
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Mani S. Kavuru

Words and writing have always interested me, but the transition now is from scientific writing (which is based on logic and the rational) to a more emotive, lyrical form. At present this remains an experiment to see if I can strike the right tone, elicit a desired effect, etc. Full disclosure: I have been utilizing chatGPT as an "assistant"; I provide the prompts, edit extensively, yet the structure is provided by my assistant. I take full responsibility for the end result. Not that dissimilar to work on a scientific project in the lab, etc. more…

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