Gilbert Mapengo-Mwanguku Poet Free verse

The Cracked Pillar

By  Gilbert Mapengo Mwanguku


Unable to stand the horrendous cacophony
that comes with the holly typhoons from the west
A dwindling struggle for life with a riffle 
while the edges smuggle maggots and goats

Red eye is the destined transition
yet blue is the nature of the pupil 
yellow drops pour endlessly

The pillar is pregnant again
Now with triplets like pets
Melancholy, foray and agony

Tied up in a wagon of bygones 
trying to define a smile in times of a calamity
glory written on the faces of ants
they have found a home
yet in the other dark  crack is a rat
worried about the impending fate
in case the pillar is pronounced late

Then the earth sonorously quakes
the wheels of wind roll
like the rapid blood flow from the gallows
Darkest clouds in rage converge 
In the background pounding ambiances heard
Sober minds and sombre moods pass the time

Thunder cracks, and the pillar is down kissing mother earth

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