They ravaged me
All things I achieved
Became their inheritance
So when I woke up
The nightmare ended
I had nothing
Everything was stolen
Appropriated into their accounts
Blaring lights of glaring savauge,
Gaudy surmise ceased to suprise
Light of darkness, sun to the sky,
In sight to sanitise the tear of thy eye
Unswept and wept 'pon broken bodice,
Wept and kept and hounded the goddess
Fanned the fawn of cauterised fallace,
Hell of cold, unearthly palace
Chaste and torn chest of satis,
Man to maid and hound of malice
Seam to see unravel of ravage,
Goddess to test the fondest of savage.
Fire ravage,
You come to know the power of the fire
When you see a steel melting in the fire,
If a steel which is so harder melting what about
people and animals?
Fire ravage,
When the volcano Nyiragongo erupted ,
many people ran away for their lives ,
few people and animals burnt and turned to stones.
Fire ravage,
I remember about the destruction of the fire in Australia
And other countries,
Many fire fighters stood up to help,
many people and animals burnt and died.
Many Christian ministers and Muslim sheikhs
quoted about the lake of fire in HELL
Where more wrongdoers will be thrown.
Fire ravage ,
Jesus Chris said," I have come to bring fire on the EARTH, and how I wish it were already kindled!
You hear about the fire in HELL
and the fire brought by Christ Jesus on EARTH,
Fire ravage,
Stop doing wrong things,
Accept to melt into the fire
of the Lord to be HOLY,
When you will die HOLY,
you will not go to the lake of fire in HELL,
You will be with the LORD in PARADISE.
Febuary 25/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe Mussabwa Chris
The performances gone,
just memory survives
A spirit most willing,
whose body still tries
All motion much slower,
directed regret
Intention unwavered
—times ravage beset
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
The beauty of lines and wrinkles
or the ravages of time
Which is it?
How do we interpret
Its’ inevitable visit?
Can we learn to appreciate
our natural evolution?
or are we trapped in the quest
for a stay of execution?
The performances gone,
all memory survives
A spirit most willing,
whose body still tries
All motion much slower,
directed regret
Intention unwavered,
—times ravage beset
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
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