Poetry Corner: A Harvest of Mayhem

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A day’s fit in the pit

Is a life filled with precious carats of it

A day’s periled risk inside the pit



Is a life milled to the full with golden mints

A day’s willed strength

expended in the depth of it

Is a life filled with milk and honey

Milk and money

 

As death stares

Death scares none

Where death looms

There they dare to loot

 

When death stretches a hand

Only the coward stretches a hand of fear

When the gravedigger lowers limbs and whole

Into a pitch dark hole

Deep where the coward trembles with fear

Death stirs up a tear

And more tears

 

The seeping Mercury forms in the broth

Yeah!

Was it not worth more than nothing we had?

The corroding Cyanide froths at the top

Well?

Was it not better than that pinching poverty?

Was it not better than those hungry yawning episodes?

 

II

With forest reserves dedicated to greedy hands

With greedy hands aimed at arable lands

With arable lands reduced to bare barren lands

With blood and dirt on your greedy hands

You will never get to spend the gold

 

III

In the fields far off

The greens give us some fresh to inhale

The greens give us some berries to nimble

The greens give us some days of rain

In the fields far off

 

In the fields not far off

The greens get in the way

The greens give way

The browns get a field day

In the fields not far off

 

IV

With Birem brewed to the brim from a muddy mess

With Ankobra bracing up for more digging craziness

With Pra praying for some watery purity

With blood and mud on your hands

You will never get to spend the gold

 

With Tano contaminated beyond reaching the taps

With Densu struggling to supply nsu to thirsty throats

With Oti and Offin overwhelmed with impurities

You will never get to spend the gold

With blood and guilt on your hands

(C) SKBissue October 2022

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