Get Your Premium Membership

The Orphan's Tears

The firewood of this world is too heavy to bear
The worries of this world an everyday nightmare 
Like a spear it breaks through my sorrowful heart
As I sit staring at the stars
All through the night

The trees around the compound dancing the dirge of its lonliness
The goats all lying in weakness
The square we gathered now triumphed by grasses
As the mutts take harbour in your houses
The colar bone is broken
The legs have no where to hacken

The famine in my heart so dry like the desert
Even spit in tongue now dessert 
Broken men now speak
All because the mighty lies weak
What a load the Carmel cannot carry
Lyes as a bride for me to marry

O my eyes so blind even with lights to see
The bright lights now blind with jealousy 
The left over now become companions 
As friends now form an enemy battalion 
As I lye waiting for death on a stallion 
While on its wings she celebrates me a broken champion

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem. Negative comments will result your account being banned.

Please Login to post a comment

Date: 6/9/2018 9:29:00 AM
Hi Patrick, this is an excellent Ballard, only thing I would like you to look at to improve the read is omit most of ( THEs) which in my opinion will sharpen it, hope you don’t mind me saying my friend.
Login to Reply
Ituma Avatar
Patrick Ituma
Date: 6/9/2018 7:48:00 PM
Thank you very much Sir I appreciate ??

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry