A voice from the remote dark

Adookorn Auaduma
@auadumaadookorn150359
1 month ago

at the carrefour of living
we lie in the arms of the blind,
grope on thorn-furnished path

where our tomb lie
in wait from the days of birth

we crawl through sullen realities
crafted a shadow on sand of credence

at the crossroads
we sough, the jingle of crash coins
assume, the voice of the dead

will spur wind of change,
taunt our greed-blind siblings

busy stocking bloody lucre
from the spoils of our birthright

to curry favour with despotic wiz -
looters of our heirloom

but eery wind sang to my
longing ears

"do not linger on twilight
paths at night fall

from north, swift marauding cheetahs
wait for signal with neo-rifle
of mass destruction

to delete beings that loiter
after grazing hours "

i stooped on the kneel of my fears
born of foolhardy penance,

whisper the presage of extinction
as the wind continued,

"the left wing will bear
frightening mantle of power
with severe rage

worse than those exhibited
by the exit tarquin

to dwarf the weight
of the passing sovereign

then i asked,
"what will befall us at last
when nomadic marauders
take over our homes

it replied,
"do not leave your homes
vie for autonomous states having

weak centre
till the last arrow is spent!

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