Death's Victory by Joe Onyeji

Swollen,
Nodes and fears
Unconfirmed feelings
Of sequestered life,
Of sainthood,
The noise, hullabaloos
’The parched trust’
All gone…
Yesterday.
The ill wind comes swift
Omen of darkness
To take in bits,
In pieces, I,
Standing,
Dead in arrears
The unsung hero of a rising generation
From a distance, funeral songs come:
Reverberating tunes
Of a debauchery a decade gone
It’s tune is a war song:
"Death is the victor
You are the vanquished!"