Poetry

Hearse

Black vehicle of sorrow

A chance for a brighter tomorrow

An afterlife of promises

Or were it all illusions that will vanish?

To mount the mobile deathbed

One must first be tested

Are you shallow breathing?

Or are you through with respiring?

Out by the window are prowlers who wallow

Engined box stalked by weeping of its shadow

Unbothered by the souls that fall

Its wheels continue to leisurely roll

Arriving at its destination

You who boarded with qualification

Are you alighting from the front passenger seat?

Or are you being vertically dragged from behind that seat?

-Babu Monang-

March 22, 2014 – 1:49 am

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