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Death Row

I woke up alone By my side my phone In the wee hours of dawn With nowhere to journey The jostles, the hustles gone All I am doing is imagine My small empty town All waiting for the rain To live normalcy again This abnormal-normal is a drain Draining my little brain Driving my mind insane Now my life is a jumbled plan I was to be in Taiwan After a year in Japan Mybe later in Spain What now with this chain This Covid pain Derailing the living's train Higgledy piggledy my life Trapped in my little room be safe Simple has become my night life No more booze no more cafe Just my comforter, my pillow and my coffee Propelling me through this bondage's rough Home bound indoors life tough Every minute advising myself That I have ate enough And no more scuf Every cough a dry cough I never imagined that it might be That it can turn up to be A painful sting of africanised bee Entangling humanity like a Spider web Stacking us with no else to be It keeps coming to me Thoughts about those I hold dare to me.. What if they die What If he die What if she die What!! What if I die Okay what if you die You see This this nightmare Unknown so rare But how many more Are we all at the verge of a death row

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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