My Fears

OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 005
MY FEARS
TIME OF THOUGHT:02:30AM
DATE OF THOUGHT:24:02:2010

Indeed I gat my deeper fears
The one I will live to see
Not at all of the past 
But of the future

The coming future 
The unknown
Not of the day old 
But of the old age

When my strength will reduce;
Vision become dreams
Kneels disengage the body
And all smartness shall be gone

When staff 
Shall be my third legs
And the smooth radiant skin
Will be wrinkled
When my youthful flares
Shall bid goodbye while am here 
When the hands of time will turn my children to my nanny.

Hmm, what a future to wait upon

When all my blacks turns grey
And my age will grow old
And turn my limbs to banana stalks

Hmm, what a future to wait upon 
When the fresh cheek will
Turn haggard sallowless
And the time pass
Will drink my strength up.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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