Earth, To You I Mourn

Friend and foe
Blood and tears i pour.

Long did thee decay in waste,
Twigs and shells in funeral of fate.

Out were my heart
In darkness and no light.

Lost we in this spherical ditch,
Funeral of sadness and anguish,
Let me, unconsoled and let me wish.

Let me bathe myself in tears,
No more can i bear these fears.

Clotheth in nothing but sack
Oh! am I now lank.

Cry out in quail,

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poem by Ugoh Ifeanyi
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Bound in chain

Standind in the valley of wreck,
Sitting under the cidar canopy,
Mind so troubled,
Thoughts, of an unseen world,
An unexpected void i happen to be lost in.

My mind quackes,
My body is shrivelled
up,
Dances to the tune of 'drummer heart',
Lonely and hapless,
Like a prisoner i groan.

Wishes for death,
Yet afraid to die,
Death cometh;
With its icy hand, it threatens,
Yet i hid from it.

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poem by Ugoh Ifeanyi
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