Genius – Written September 2025 (Aged 50)

Genius

There is no joy
in recognition.
Genius
is all cloak and daggers.
I so want
to thank the past,
the people of its foundations,
because those people
move on to other things,
and I know
there is no joy in recognition.
After all,
Genius
is a culpable decision.
It is outside,
forging its own special kind of mission,
one which will scan the shallow horizon.
And I know
it is all cloak and daggers.
And the post—
it stoops,
looking tired and haggard—
but it knows how to laugh,
even when the jokes are staggered.
There is no joy
in recognition.
Genius—
it just tends that garden
of deep-rooted manipulation,
where flowers are beautiful,
but designed by complex situations.

James Garratt – Monday September 2025

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