DEATH

ARREST IT (TANKA)

Please no sympathy!

Show me no sympathy please!

Help me, just help me

Please help me free him from death

And I will be consoled then

Your sympathies suck!

How can you stand idle now?

Death holds him in arms

And you stand here like vultures

Vultures with no beaks!

III

How can it do this?

How can you stand still watching?

We’re many here

Isn’t togetherness key?

Why then do you act like sheep?

Every now and then

It comes like a thief to steal

From you, from you, you

And this moment we are still

When it pins one to a bed?

It is arrest time

Wipe those tears off your faces

Get your armours now

And let’s strike it finally

Its captive now, is my all

Tags Death, POETRY., TANKA

By amoafowaa

Just a simple Ghanaian trying to find the best in our society. I may be fun, I may be interesting, I may be funny, I may even be foolish or intelligent, but it is all based on the mood in which you find yourself. I believe our minds make us who we are. Know that, pain, no matter its 'unbearability', is transient. Unburden or delight yourself for a while in my writings please. And all corrections, advice and opinions are welcome. Know that you are the king, queen or royal on this blog. :)

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