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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_9985" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-9985" style="width: 396px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/will-i-linger-after-i-halt.png"><img class=" wp-image-9985 " alt="Will I Linger After I Halt" src="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/will-i-linger-after-i-halt.png" width="396" height="285" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-9985" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[Will I Linger After I Halt]</strong></figcaption></figure>Word-mason: I wield my knife<br>
Laying on the pad of life<br>
A thousand blocks of words…<br>
What will my end be afterwards?
<p>No, I do not fear death.<br>
But I fear, for my name after death<br>
What will the tongues of man say?<br>
After the night that births no day?</p>
<p>Life is a market, we trade<br>
When we leave, where will our names be laid;<br>
Brief letterings on trampled sand<br>
Or deep etchings into rock-land?</p>
<p>When I lay in the silent casket<br>
Will eyes leak water like basket?<br>
Would I be laid as ‘the Good Fellow?’<br>
Or just another Zero hero?<!--more--></p>
<p>Here I am, laying blocks still<br>
My words grow from pile to hill<br>
I ask myself, “Will I linger after halt<br>
Or die to join the ‘Forgotten’ cult”</p>
<p>So I fear not the jaws of death<br>
Not the loss of borrowed breath…<br>
I fear the heavenly flight<br>
Only for my name’s plight</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Written by: Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau</em><br>
<em>Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</em></p>
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