The Web Poetry Corner - Clarius Ugwuoha - Keep it no more!
Keep it no more!
by
Clarius Ugwuoha
Look at how you cradle it
That instrument of death
As though it were a baby's toy
Look at how you caress it
That destroyer of dreams
Like it were a woman's love.
Do you love it more than life?
And now as you clutch its bloodied mass
Do you at all retch
At that unwholesome stench?
Get it down and use it no more
For it has done evil on earth
Its thunderous claps are but of death
And in its beautiful form
Lurking with horrific claws
Is the monster
That'd driven people out of
Their homes and sanity.
Alone in the chilly embrace od dawn
Get it down and keep it no more
Brace up for peace - the war without gun
Keep it no more
For its beauty is the beauty of death.