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POETRY

MEN OR BEASTS?

Staff WriterOctober 12, 2012July 16, 2017

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..Men or beasts?
..Men or Beasts?

What have we become, we sons of men,
Now that we’ve made of Earth a killing den?

The lion kills to put meat in his stomach.
The slithering cobra strikes to repel attack.
…
Neither King Lion that rules the deep jungle
Nor the soaring, sharp-clawed Eagles
Would dare slaughter the rat or stray calf,
Just that they may with blood-mirth laugh!

Why then do men – demon-possessed pack,
Merciless Humans that do humanity lack –
Now slaughter on whims and plunder at will?
Say, can we then call ourselves Humans still!?
…
Do you think the dead can breathe again?
Or a corpse, nurtured with sun and rain?

These hands with which we share out death
Shall, sure, one day lie, without life’s breath!

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6 thoughts on “MEN OR BEASTS?”

  1. lawrenzo92 says:
    October 12, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    “These hands with which we share out death
    Shall, sure, one day lie, without life’s breath!”

    #Deep… !

    Reply
    1. Kukogho Samson says:
      October 12, 2012 at 4:58 pm

      But tis true right Sir?

      Reply
  2. lawrenzo92 says:
    October 12, 2012 at 4:55 pm

    “These hands with which we share out death
    Shall, sure, one day lie, without life’s breath!”

    #Deep !!!

    Reply
  3. Williams nwadike says:
    October 18, 2012 at 9:17 am

    *******SONGS OF TOMORROW********

    For donkey years

    We toiled in hardship,

    That surrounds us like orges!

    Protagonists to stain our hopes and futures;

    And dispose is to fate.

    That craves our root dead:

    Though in a crescendo culvert.

    We arose beyond the hurdles,

    And envisage a future;

    Filled with leisures and pleasures!

    Amid the orges of hardship

    Crawling and cradling into a leap’

    That blossomed into a bliss,

    With joy of a melodious songs

    We sing and dance around.

    Reply
    1. Kukogho Samson says:
      October 18, 2012 at 9:30 am

      Wow, a poet’s comments….read delightfully. Thanks.

      Reply
    2. Kukogho Samson says:
      October 21, 2012 at 11:34 pm

      cooool poem bro Nwadike… I like this.

      Reply

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