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floating dead

guzzling tons to edge the brim
till its use chokes the gut
and vitality estimated lowly from air
proves the endareing danger to become dead

unseen hands draw the ankle deep
plunging it into a perolous drench
to stretch the bossom heavy with innecesity
which promises to be a pregnancy of calamity

after the hours its help now is irrelevant
the same unseen hands charter the dead
in a merciful cavalcade to float above
when the human was striving it did naught

aloft the sea it jolts as a casualty
jerking to the forces of the sizzling waves
and all the tension has finally been lulled
when the sea belches the reminant of death
— emeka ozurumba, Aug 07, 2009

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Region, Country: Nigeria , abuja

Favorite Poets: christopher okigbo, wole soyinka, gabriel okara , odiah ofeimun- john keats, p.b shelley

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