SONNET: "GRAVEYARD" BY LASISI VICTOR

This world,

None would leave alive;

Alive in itself alive without dead -

Who have been alive a long time ago?

Dug deep is thy deepest dust.

An empty wine-skinned-hand beside a grave

One for the man who held grip-tight 

the world,

Another for the one

Who finds solace in feeding flower to the non-living. 

Alive in himself, alive without dead;

One who have been deadly alive 

a long time ago.

~LASISI VICTOR OLUWADAMILARE

05.06.23

The poet persona gives that no man will leave the world with a full spirit for death is a gradual process that does not come instantly. Those who would die satisfactorily are those who remember the dead while they are alive.