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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_1276" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1276" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/grim-reaper.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1276" title="Grim Reaper" alt="Grim Reaper" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/grim-reaper.jpg?w=300" height="248" width="300" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1276" class="wp-caption-text">Grim Reaper</figcaption></figure>
<p>How wronged we thee, Grim Reaper?<br>
That thou failest not to reach yet deeper,<br>
Into our idyll chest of placid joy,<br>
To steal our smiles, though we be calm and coy?</p>
<p>What offence hath the little bairn,<br>
who yet suckles at his mother’s breast?<br>
Or the unripe teen who for a future doth yearn,<br>
That thou pluck’st them in their prime-fest?</p>
<p>Is not our hearts full of the sordid tale,<br>
Of thine blind onslaught on our race and kind?<br>
Have not our bread turned sour and stale,<br>
As we dread your coming, with fear in our mind?</p>
<p>We groan helplessly, as we bear this curse:<br>
Our lifeless children, still, beside a weeping nurse,<br>
Time and time again, we scribble down a death-date;<br>
We wipe our drenched eyes, as we welcome our fate.</p>
<p>And the earth, ne’er weary to swallow<br>
The bodies that you coerce us give it;<br>
Is full of musty bones of our gone fellow,<br>
Severed, each one from the other bit.</p>
<p>Thy treachery overt on our scroll as a myth,<br>
As we be hacked daily by thy cruel scythe;<br>
We live each day, your dread vivid in our hearts,<br>
As we wonder why so haply you ax us down like rats.</p>
<p>This tyranny, you administer to us,<br>
Caring not about the thick tear on our cheeks;<br>
With gravest loathe, you grant us no relief,<br>
You plucked your own eyes, just to wreak mischief.</p>
<p>And now, terror abideth in our fretful hearts,<br>
As by our ears whiz your fiery death-darts;<br>
Every man in his tent, with his mourning retinue,<br>
Enslaved by fate, helplessly await you.</p>
<p>Our young’uns you cut down in their prime,<br>
Our olden ones you left not in your craze;<br>
You come in a-sudden–you give none a time,<br>
But root us up, in the morn of our days.</p>
<p>Our mighty men fallen, our gates doth quiver,<br>
Yet, you gulp us down your bottomless belly!<br>
What is it we owe thee, gold or silver–<br>
That thou takest our lives as bait cruelly?</p>
<p>Break away, Reaper, let us alone!<br>
Let thine sickle cease to scrape our bone…<br>
Daily, at even-tide, deep elegies we drone,<br>
As we behold thee pluck that which wombs hath sown.</p>
<p>“Death hath done it again…!” we cry each day,<br>
See, last night’s tear yet hang on our cheeks;<br>
And ere our eyes be dry, another you take away,<br>
Leaving us with abysmal fear, as steadily the clock ticks.</p>
<p>Our waters, chameleoned into blood,<br>
We gnash and turn pleaful faces to God.<br>
We pray, not for thy demise, for that cannot be-<br>
But for shelter and present escape from thee.</p>
<p>Thou that kill’st us, and cannot be killed;<br>
Wilt thou go scot-free for the blood you have spilled?<br>
Nay, but soon shall come the day,<br>
When you shall account for our folks you did slay.</p>
<p>Tho’ before thee, Reaper, I am but a pinch of flour,<br>
And thou canst sink thy claws into my heart any hour;<br>
One thing I know ’bout thee, Sire,<br>
Is, that thou and hell, shall blaze in the Lake of fire.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">meet the poet: <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Mike.Ani01">Arc Ani Onyedikachi Michael</a></strong></p>
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