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LIFE IS A FAIR - Teddy Ugonna Richard
life is simply beautiful,
it gives you a hug,
makes your tears orphans,
and your sorrows widows’ tales,
yet, we are conscious,
of life,
its rivers strewn with yawns of
dilemmas,
life makes babies out of men,
pawns their derelict bravery,
to the gods of strife,
yet life makes you
conscious,
conscious of hidden bedlams of delight,
conscious of the purgatories of a whore,
life is a fair,
a merry go round
of jacques,
cynical maesters deriding joys,
life is a fair,
all the world is a stage,
a plethora of setting suns,
life makes you conscious
of mortalities,
of our decadent sighs,
life is a fair,
when the fairy tale ends,
our collective groans,
shall water hopes of
an eternal choral medley,
life is a fair,
be conscious of this,
lest this farce
wakes you up.
Teddy Ugonna Richard
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