***Death***

Kingsley Bassey Ukpong
@kingsleybasseyukpong131493
5 months ago

Death


The rottenness under the shadows of life
Ever price the bounties of the living
Fogs mists shadows dusts and mirages
Cleaves to our bones
The wrinkling wrinkles of age
Beauty holds at ransom
For the festering council of worms
Glows the skin like silk in the blue moon
Smiles and tears
The medallions of our roving
Comes shrewd in miffed and stifled bubbles with every birth and death
Death
The ripening almonds
The ripened berry ready to fall to the winds
Strange winds from strange shores
Blowing through our garden
Rendering bare every plant it embraces
Every touch a tears drops for the dead taken
And a song a dirge prepares for those mortal fools grieving
Death
Askance we stand within thy borders in pretentious living
Fearing the sweet rest and succor you offer
For wearied our souls we have
In vain shadows trying to live
Yea to outlive our days of blissful nothingness
Death
You’ve chased our wearied souls
Far cross the borders
We stand stranded in fearful living
In thy lofty shadow
Graced only thy mercy.
Death
The almonds are ripened and this breeze again comes blowing through
Like a harvest so we fall into thy open hands
For from birth to death
Tethered we are to thee
O Death!



JBK Baruch
6th June, 2023



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