I Had a Row With Fate
She would not yield
I could not bend
Though I died from the bout.
Go tell it on the radio
We are thoughts and actions
The talk between rarely counts
Ws are extremes all
This world has an edge
There, all things come to end
No one finds it till they fall
Off the sharp slithering bay
I was hoarse with weeping
Fate had broken my spine
She stood astride my chest
She would spit in my face
Saw me look up her gaping skirt
Caught the mockery in my dimming eyes
And bolted away in shame
My last-breath=cackle chasing
True,I had a scrap with ugly Fate
But won the duel clean and fair
When I died fighting
Copyright © Pita Okute | Year Posted 2005
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