Lamptey Godson Kofi Poet Light Verse

Image From the Dark

THE IMAGE FROM THE DARK
	
It crawls gradually in haste with all it has
No fame and yet able to alter the way we live
Once it comes, it demeans, embarrasses and mutilate
And we do cry all day, all time, cursing
Oh fate what have you done

Poverty! That is fate, you!
A thwart
Life in pieces of rugs and hunger
Surviving like fallen Lucifer from Heaven
Always not successful

… I ask
He wants to know
They contemplates
Is poverty a sign of fate?
So,

Let be on the run 
Help me to fight poverty, the image from the dark
Bringing down the curtains of “wishes”
So we cross the desert of life together
Running to God a freed men from the dark, not poverty.

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Makineedi Surya Bhaskar August 19, 2010 at 4:33 PM "Life in pieces of rugs and hunger Surviving like fallen Lucifer from Heaven" A strong simile, also symbolizing the dark by the comment of 'fallen from heaven', for hell is gloomy and collectively symbolize the hungry, poverty, cursed fate etc which hinder the men to be freed when they are in their full grim. The last philosophic touch gives the poem an endurable memorization.

Bojosi Ditshwele August 10, 2010 at 7:25 AM i enjoyed reading your poetry Kofi. hope u will enjoyed yourself here at PS keep writing and reading poetry

Sidney Hall Mad Poet August 3, 2010 at 5:20 PM Wow excellent poem. Welcome to the soup

Carol Sunshine Brown August 2, 2010 at 8:52 AM I would like to welcome you to PoetrySoup Lamptey. Wishing you the best in your writing endeavors. If you have questions please feel free to ask anyone here. We are all willing to help and if we don't know the answer we will find someone who does. Love, Carol