spilledwoords
“Poetry burns in our hearts with the passionate heat of a lover’s embrace.”
….everywhere
Pocket lawyers everywhere
Rolling out conflicting analyses
Of a seeming jurisdictional muddle
Lilly-livered politicians everywhere
Auctioning their oscillating loyalty
Like a piece of cloth in a market stall
Empty minded masses everywhere
Blown hither and thither like leaves
Tanned carton brown by misery
And the scorching heat of tyranny
Life is a teacher and again a crucible
Pain is a tutor and also a catalyst
The thoughtful grow by synthesis
Crowd followers are spent as fuel
The winner doubles down his spoils
The sharks converge and carry the day
Stewards ditch their master for a song
Then jump ship like migratory birds
Foraging across the divide for a reward
The man in Douglas House is no fool
A political quarantine will be their lot
A sort of life-changing backhand slap
It’s different strokes for different folks.
© Chigozie Chikere,
Spilledwoords
2020
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A Fortnight Today
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Conspiracy
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Helter-skelter
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By the Tollgate
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Weapon
The will to power destroys the power to will.The weapon made, we cannot help but use it;it drags us with its own momentum still. The power to kill compounds the need to kill.Grown out of hand, the heart cannot refuse it;the will to power undoes the power to will. Though as we strike we cry […]
