Best Poems Written by Emmanuel Onyenekperechi

ONE DAY

One day joy herein will not be found 
Your sound mind will become unsound 
Your friends will no longer be around 
Your body weak will long for the ground 

One day the beauty you admire will fade 
And the ugliness you dislike will pervade 
Your rich mansions the poor will invade
Your glowing skin will be for the mortician's pomade 

One day the eyes that long to see shall close 
The hands that long to acquire will lose 
The legs that long to walk will repose 
The body that is always fresh will decompose 

One day my name will be added the title "late"
The life I enjoy will push me out of its gate 
My powerful self will helplessly lie in state
My powerful name will be on the cemetery's slate

One day from my position I will be put away 
Another in that position would be meant to stay
As mighty as I am I will laid in the dirtiest clay 
As handsome as I am I will be made to decay 

One day even my grave will be wiped out 
For time carries no one about 
On my grave grasses and weeds will sprout
On it birds and animals will gather to shout

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