Harridan

Your clothes are flimsy as rags
With dirt’s that stench the air
Your skin are dry and creaky
Like a bread that lost its touch
Your mouth always quick to speak
With a voice sounding like drums
Despised in the land of everywhere
Wanted in the company of no one
Oh harridan avert from thy ways

Your heart is like the moon 
 borrowing the light of the sun
You feed on the happiness of men
Just because you hunger for war
You thirst for the blood of a child
So the mother will feel the ache
You wonder in the valley called pain
And find rest in the waters of gyp
Oh harridan repel thy doom  to come


Your path leads to a destructive end
That smitten the lives of the innocent
Your thoughts are like soured milk
Leaving a tart taste to the soul of a lass
I cry out to you oh deceitful woman
Your end will be as bitter as gall
I bawl out to you oh vicious one
Your pit is as deep as an abyss
Oh harridan deter for your ruin  is near
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Makama Avatar
June 5, 2012 at 8:35 AM
This is absolutely fantastic... I love this line "Your path leads to a destructive end That smitten the lives of the innocent"
Suzadail Jr. Avatar
January 27, 2011 at 6:43 AM
Congrats on the feature. As long as acceptance is not universal and the heart of man is filled with greed and a hunger for power and not love, there will be war, there will be poverty, there will be dissension. Vince
Brown Avatar
January 25, 2011 at 6:53 AM
Congratulations on your well deserved poetry being featured here at PoetrySoup this week Adekemi. May you have many more featured. Love, Carol
Adeniyan Avatar
January 10, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Thanks a lot :)
Mehta Avatar
January 10, 2011 at 5:08 AM
Very creative and descriptive write on harridan, Adekemi
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