Edwin Olu Bestman Poet Elegy

I Lost All

I lost all my favorite 
people to death/
that is why broken smiles sleep 
on face/
that is why i am always lonely in a 
room full of people 

I lost all my favorite
people to death/
mom was the first missing 
angel/ 
whose face was never pictured 
by me 

Dad became our next mother/
whose life painted joy in our 
fragile hearts/
But took a tour with death in 
2017 

I saw darkness roaming our 
backyard/
cries broke in through the 
window pane/
we fell off like an iroko tree 

I lost all my favorite
people to death/
aunt too became a victim/
they said she had suffered from 
African sign

Beautiful souls having an affair 
with the red earth/
tearing me apart like a broken 
pavement/
how I wish to plant kisses on 
their foreheads

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