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Within the shadow
You stumble on the factory of grief;
The release of tears
Curtailed and brief.
And of hope deferred.
Our flesh pines like the noon dusk;
The breadth of our days is a speck of dust.
Within the shadow
Expectation is sallow.
Sighing and tears,
Doubting and fears
Birth the circle of existence-
A summary of our experience.
Babies born out of wedlock,
Education is tough luck,
The system’s all messed up,
Gridlocked!
Without the shadow
Reality grows talons
It’s the disease called herd instinct.
Well yeah, it stinks.
Humanity is past feeling
And the best days of our lives unfolds
Within the shadow.
The music moans a dirge
I can feel my shattered bones immerge
In a hub where love is unknown.
Hope wanders like a stray, forlorn,
My heart beats in sync with trauma
Too cold to feel warmth’s aura.
Within the shadow
The days are possessed with rust
Still the night times recall the process.
It’s hard to imagine trailing this course
Any chance at all, of access
Out of decay into an illusion of success
Is like passing thro’ the eye of a needle.
Within the shadow
Hate fiddles
Inflicting torment on the soul in rations.
Dead is compassion;
Safe from the cares of rescuing the perishing.
In this climax, truth is lying
Shameless to the face of the oppressed.
The import of the message is over-stretched.
Within the shadow
Staring in-thro’ eternity’s eyes
It’s near-impossible to realize
How fleeting is time.
The race is weary,
Death is tranquility.
Here lies the bones of determination,
Beneath the palaces of a plague.
When the human heart experiences corruption,
Paradise is seldom regained.
Akpan
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i truly loved your poem! it was wow! congratulations on finishing 30 poems for NapoWriMo
ReplyDeleteThanks, Manisha!
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