THE PICTURES OF HATRED Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI
KEMKA S. IBEJI |
Eats off giant into thin dwarf
Diminishes ideas, stunting them
Baptizes the wise into foolishness
Blurs greatest seers and blindfolds
The sensual is numbed silly
Subjecting knowledge to nothing
Why possess our leaders?
They've all become bad gods
What else can they become?
The preachers and doers of doom
Don't get into our gods
You make demons from gods
Singing songs of destruction;
Day and night even endlessly
Vanishing their virtues;
Love and temperance,
Tolerance and mercy
Many more will go
May we not live in hades
Get not into our homes
Don't visit peace of lovers
Cast not your mind on ours
Oh hatred!
You're the weak destroyer
The enfeebling doze
Who tears down the mighty
Stupefying the brave
Calving a fool of the courageous
Let not my eyes see thee
Let not my wits embrace thine
Never let me in to thy tables
That I may not thirst at thy door
Let me never be your host
Not even now, not in times ahead
True talk
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