by gabriel babatunde oluwakorede | |
Published on: Sep 29, 2006 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=8123 | |
"Earth, a paradise" The statement becomes a myth Planet earth, a reality Existence of Paradise on earth Is never a truth About our cruel world, Rotates on its axis Faces the light awhile And turns to the dark side Peace surfaces today Tomorrow strife becomes news Animals, siblings, in creation Now playing "host and prey" None like Eden The first Garden The earth shakes in despair War emerging from angles The infants barely see old age Our life span, short, sorrowful Soon, our breath expires Our nostrils emptied In earth we lay covered Then do we say, Earth, a paradise? It's a contrast of that But in reality, a myth. « return. |