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Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Man against Man - Abdulai Walon-Jalloh

It's in those
Who fight them
To release that
Stored in venom

They are nothing
As is something
To the thing
That is anything

Try as they may
Why are they about?
Dry are the winds
Permeating among them

With utter dismay
They surely display
In a wide array
Their characteristic folly

It's maximum self-annihilation
That issues from profound self-preservation
That's in the need of rampant mutilation
In a world capable of needless remorse

Unending torture
Is the future
For a current feature
In a canvass of pictures

Man shall never learn
As man against man
Reverberates through the spine
With every quaking step
As the brilliant sun shows the way

Abdulai Walon-Jalloh (born 1970) Sierra Leone

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