What’s up out there, darling dear
I’m missing your sharpness and wit
I witness more troubles from here
If this world is doomed to get split
Maybe one of its thousands of pieces
Will be suitable for habitation
A kinder God wouldn’t mind hear us
And softer will be every nation
And your little garden will grow
Bit larger and brighter each year
“The growing means work, as you know
Stop telling me these words of cheer..
You should say I wouldn’t be ill
With such a bouquet of diseases
That I could get over, until
You came with your stupid air kisses”.
In the mortal realm, a million diseases lurk
Each one poised to kill a man
The ache of longing for distant dreams
Neglecting the near for a pitiful mirage
The boil of lust, yielding to flesh
Forsaking the path of chastity
The fever of impatience, rushing to doom
While salvation stands on a steep hill
Awaiting careful tread
In the mortal realm, a million diseases lie
Each one eager to claim a man
The irritating groin of procrastination
Slowing his journey to success
The strain of distraction, hampering his focus
The shivers of failure, halting his steps
In the mortal realm, a million diseases dwell
Yet man hopes to die
Of the bruises from fighting for what's right
Of burns from the flames of progress
On the journey to fulfillment
If he falters, if he fails
He hopes to die with his diseases vanquished
Not in surrender, but in battle to the end
Bp is up
Tb is breaking
Asthma closes up ?
Ebola is exterminating
HIV is viral
Cancer is cutting
Diabete is destroying
Corona is crushing
Malaria is messing.
People are crying
Hurting
Dying daily
Here and there.
May 06/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
A body housing three diseases
With three more as the visiting ones:
Enjoy he does just brief releases,
On some days obliged to laugh but once...
A rough fate acting as it pleases;
Each time he dumped his drugs worse than dunce
Cimetidine that Ulcer eases
Or else a body hit on each ounce
Inhaler against the longest wheezes;
No Ciproxin, Salmonella pounce...
Water-borne diseases
Man senselessly increases
With his trembling “No”
To drinks he doesn’t know
Instead of “The firmest”
That portrays “The Dead Earnest”
Water-borne diseases
One hopelessly increases
By not taking The Certified Pure
Or with a bow declining The Impure
Between tap water adjudged pure
And liquor blissfully a lure.
Isn’t affordable to the poor
Bottled water for official tour?
Then, one always pick one up after manicure
Beating the vulgarity of A Moor
And keep declaring for The Pure
For even elixirs that cough cure …
For their not-one-not-two numbing releases
Trifle not with water-borne diseases.
(A linguistic experience)
Was there any argument that justified
the existence of the word-disease?
something more was said of this
at the beginning of the completion of the understanding
who disputed any logos establishing the new negative balance
on the influence of the word on the general condition
of the illiterate impatient patient?
scary demon-letters!
they run through the phrasal labyrinth
and the fat of leftover vowels
it smears the verbal walls and there is no law
that limits the limit of the limitless
sick phonemes accept any pain
there is no medicine and there is no leaflet insert
it is all unpredictability
I've been using gerunds around
like when who doesn't know
or not knowing in all a textual body
goes astray to where they call where...
African Wild Dogs are listed as, endangered
and they are also known as, the African Painted Dog
They are found in the South, and South East Africa
and they inhabit, forests, grasslands and deserts
Wild Dogs like to gather socially, in packs of around ten individuals
but this doesn’t help, when they catch diseases of distemper and rabies
They are threatened with targeting killing, by those human criminals
and habitat loss of their prey, from expanding human activities
There are people
and there are superficial evils ...
Illnesses that bother,
but manageable ...
simple solution ... dandruff in the hair!
Normal people,
neither healthy nor ill ...
There are other people
who have developed terrible
diseases that devour
that exterminate
any being ...
They are the ones that created
fungi, bacteria and viruses
in the conscience ... in the soul ...
Beyond the evil they inoculate
and motivates ... hardly
find the cure ...!
IMPRISONED
Radhika Sanoj
The cloudy apprehensions snarl at us,
The prisoners of a diseased planet..
We are no different nation..
We are alike
White, black, brown..,
All terribly and virtuously alike.
We together creep in fetters,
Leaving Springs behind..
Once we read , "can spring be far....."
Now winter's teeths whiten
Our fragile bones..
Oh my dear, kiss me with a life,
Miracle of a prayer
Driven towards me from heaven...
We all will be released soon,
I hope....
Fighting,
Fighting,
Can't fight no more,
It's winning the game,
A game I don't want to play anymore,
My bodies weak,
Sometimes I don't want to move,
But my job as a wife,
And a mother,
Is what makes me fight through,
The love of my life,
And others around me,
Thank god,
For giving things to me,
Day to day,
Night after night,
I'm blessed for another beautiful day,
In this ordeal,
They call life....
When you eat chicken,you get chicken-pox.
When you play polo, you catch polio.
When you color,you catch cholera.
When you descend on people you catch dysentry.
When you like harvesting potato tubers you catch tuberculosis.
When you steal answer you catch cancer.
When you don't like people you catch Aids.
When you eat from a dish in a cafeteria you catch diphteria.
If you continue to tie your headtie you'll get typhoid.
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