If Life Is Strife
Life is strife
But strife is life
Pain lingers in my core
I can feel it evermore
Who wouldn’t will a cry,
Rather than demand to die?
Life is strife
But strife is life
I only stalk the night
With a knife in my right
Spiting curses and fear
Gripping my shadow near
Life is strife
But strife is life
I am only a corpse
Living on others’ crops
Like a standing skeleton
Charged to build a guillotine
Copyright © Leslie Nii Tete Annan | Year Posted 2016
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