Man Under the weather
MAN UNDER THE WEATHER
Face contorted
Like iron screws
Piercing concrete wall
The past an illusory glamour,
A lagoon of miseries
Whirling images of infirmity
Insensitive to the compelling agony
Of the soul.
Sick in mind,
Wide awake in thoughts
Dreading the impending horror
Of strangling incapacitation.
The clunk sound of falling mangoes,
And the whining mosquitoes wings,
On cracking sound of roaches under boots,
With the melodic crow of the cock,
Conjure this spectre of the last hour.
Bereft of the twirling
Of feminine mid-rift,
Of glazing ember thighs,
Like masculine convulsion,
Drained in the throaty celebratory gulp
Of *brukutu flowing down taste buds
Devoid of canine grindings.
And imagination now the agony,
The millions of teemingness
Stowed away secretly;
The concrete estate and scrapers,
Assurances to progeny, never to lack
Crashing down before you.
This wisdom, tutored in confidence,
Resistant to divine control,
Under the weatherman
Wealthy in poverty of mind;
No man controls, this gift of life,
Or is master, of his own.
I journeyed with observation and I know,
Common sense is deficit in the house of means Robbing men of reason with dictates Only of false uncommon wisdom, until disease visits
With his mistress of panic, fear and regret.
Under the weatherman sharing same pain
With the gate man, or is your pain different?
Now is not best contemplative time
Beware mortals are equal.
For all same cradle to grave.
About this poem
The poem under publication, written in 2019, is about the reminiscences of a bed-redden man contemplating his journey of life, bereft of any powers of influence over energy.
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Written on January 20, 2019
Submitted by ajuameh on May 26, 2023
Modified by ajuameh on May 26, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,567 |
Words | 283 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 9, 7, 6, 6, 3, 5 |
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