The Grievance of Death

THE GRIEVANCE OF DEATH It comes unannounced With caloric and musty sour Calls from far and near Under unnumerous Canopies Behold the upper chambers Swimming and bleeding In white wet handkerchiefs In saucer-eyed voice, They yell Grievance of death The mantle of Loneliness Thou smeareth silence Death is smooth and rough But the grieve is But a rancid bitterness Death lights the woolly candle She stirs in kleptomaniac toes Trading upon domestic desert The grievance of death Wallows the mind in miry statute The grievance of death Summons ancient easy chairs With their C headed walking stick The red-cup headed chieftaincies Floating in tears in their chieftainship Death with the axe headed pestle Trading upon domestic desert Encroaching like a lion in the jungle With her mighty sword We have no choice No reason but to join Hence we can't say no Children journeying in nursery rhymes Black wrappers in their veiled heads Weeping in tepid ogles Death with thy barrel To good ones While the evil lives longer The grievance of death Thou shall die When death shall die (By Opurum Precious odiboy: Nigeria) Copyright © odiboy 27/07/2016