the
reaper’s curse
how
many farewells are enough
to
bid those who had it rough
living
through time’s toil...
they
who now answer the call of the soil?
what
metaphors can capture the tiger
that
roared from within you devouring evil
that
stood across your way even as you would wager
against
everything uncivil...?
as
these sands slowly sieve through our fingers
pouring
over wood that holds stiffer wood
that
once held a fire that lingers
in
our memory, tributes fall short, pretty but crude
Su'eddie Vershima Agema was
joint winner, Association of Nigerian Authors Prize for Poetry 2014 with his
second collection, Home Equals Holes: Tale of an Exile. He lives in
Nigeria, blogs at http://sueddie.wordpress.com and can be reached at eddieagema@yahoo.com. @sueddieagema on Twitter.
Su'eddie, thank you for sharing "the reaper's curse." I enjoyed it. Continued blessings!
ReplyDelete-MJ (www.tgbtgpublictions.com)