UNTITLED: A POEM

in #poetry5 years ago

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From dust to life death will come.
Between the hips of wet blood,
Life breathes voices of dark womb.
Bread crumbs spotting paths
From death to sacrifice;
Manna from the heavens.
There was some sin in gods
Made from charcoal dust
And carved trees bearing teeth marks
From the jaws of ogun.

At igun street, blood flared
Between the bladders of furnace
Heating molten gold
Into goddesses bearing speechless
Messages and dead eyes
Staring sightless at prodigal skies.
From life to death dust will come,
The Sahara breathing softly
On concrete bones bleached
Off stories and memories,
Names and even fickle hate.

Bodies warped by cold,
Cuddling breasts milked of pride,
Leaning, lean on ribcages, brittle
With fright and little hips
Clinging with need.
From death to dust life will come
Bringing flies and the cackle
Of burning roofs and dusty paths
Shrouded by moon beams
Slipping between nude feet
Dancing to terracota masquerades,
Turncoats masquerading as demons.
Soft unblemished skin wrinkling
Under the thrusting hips
Of farm hands labouring
Under the empty eyes of tomorrow.

From life to dust death will come
Like locusts after harvest fails
And hyenas domesticate themselves
To farmers' carts waiting for flesh
Sloughing off struggling bodies,
Seeking something beneath the sand.
Strands of falling locks flail
In the breeze and the sun recedes
To darkened skies holding
Trembling clouds and cursing gods.


This is a free verse and I don't really know what the message or content expresses. Good evening.

©warpedpoetic, 2018

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