Text To a Friend
I will send you a note
tonight
if I can catch the firefly
in bed
somewhere
in an old worn out basin
down by the river
is left an empty seashell
if I can coil over its rusty fence
and say goodbye
to the coral snake
I will call you
I still carry
the cockroach wing
looking at the Moon
from the garbage heap
where nobody wants to look
should the moon come out
this age old garbage
will begin to change color
growing harmony
in its steps
we too have known Burma,
Vietnam and have been
to Singapore in the classroom; yet
we get the smallest pension
(Wilberforce, 08/12/2011)
Copyright © Padmore Agbemabiese | Year Posted 2011
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