The Flag of Pricks
The sky has lost its image of beauty,
And the fading air is all you can see
When the soul of your spirit rest in cave
Inside the furnace of terrorism
How will you ascend in this graceless base?
With this bile intoxicating your heart
Rotten mind; a pollutant like strong haze,
Bringing you 'tween the bridge of death and life
Beep! Listen to the sounds of your creator
See! Created I not you for barrigness
In your spirit reside abundancy;
Of success and labour, love and enmity
First two for the one last, love is in you
And keep its flame even amidst the vulture
Rise in your glory and keep off that flag;
The flag of pricks and blood driving you astray
From vision to brooding illusion peg
Like a termite under the scourging ray
When wind daunted upon your only shoulder,
In hope and God, move like a fierce soldier
Whose spirit knows the beauty in victory
And whose eyes gyrate like an emmissary
To accomplish an unfading glory
In the unreached land of 'bundant treasure
He made you in the brook of perfection
He blessed you from the womb of your mother
But men seest not these in tribulation
As they are lost only in the moment of life
And for the jungle of sorrow you are,
You are bound for real to keep your passion
For green grass burneth in heat for its growth
So does this 'ment fill you in grace of air
The poison of life is equivalent
To the sadness of heart and mind of men
Two the anchor the flame of assertion
For progress and 'ccess, for morrow beauty
Care must thee take to decorate its wall
For its scratch can makest thee to fall
When wind daunted upon your only shoulder,
In hope and God, move like a fierce soldier
Whose spirit knows the beauty in victory
And whose eyes gyrate like an emmissary
To accomplish an unfading glory
In the unreached land of 'bundant treasure
Copyright © Smart Oyedeji | Year Posted 2018
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