LAMENTATION FOR CYNTHIA

By Adeola Ikuomola

Hearts made of ash
Souls made for sow
Spirit willed to drift
Like the wanderers
Lost in thick jungles

Hands in bloodshed
Kindness clobbered
Mankind murdered
Friends flung to hell
Like swift sea waves

Quests for mammon
The bloody embrace
Funeral rites to date
Hot tears like waves
God deliver my soul