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 </div><p>What is life?<br>
*****<br>
Clench your fists,<br>
Tightly,<br>
Let the air within boil,<br>
Love the warmth<br>
Wrapped up in your palms,<br>
Cherish it!<br>
Till your knuckles reel in pain,<br>
That your eyes flood with ice,<br>
Thawing down the bumpy terrain<br>
Of your cyanosed cheeks,<br>
Trimming the edges of your<br>
Shaking, cracking lips.<br>
Attend to the pain and faint;<br>
Let your fingers slump open<br>
And freeze…<br>
Hope you’re better now?<br>
For sure, way better you are,<br>
Than a frost-ladened ‘oku eko’;<br>
Your nostrils still whistle!<br>
Though brittle.<br>
*****<br>
So, what is life? Tell me;<br>
Isn’t it a sugary vinegar?<br>
Bouquet of roses, of thorns? Or<br>
Thin warm air in a clenched fist,<br>
Till the sun rises again to soothe,<br>
At first, and later<br>
To scorch into soot.</p>
 
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