Earth, To You I Mourn Poem by Ugoh Ifeanyi

Friend and foe
Blood and tears i pour.

Long did thee decay in waste,
Twigs and shells in funeral of fate.

Out were my heart
In darkness and no light.

Lost we in this spherical ditch,
Funeral of sadness and anguish,
Let me, unconsoled and let me wish.

Let me bathe myself in tears,
No more can i bear these fears.

Clotheth in nothing but sack
Oh! am I now lank.

Cry out in quail,
On mournin' we sail
Let our ship sing a song of dirge,
Drop by the seashore and feed on sedge.

Permed my hairs in ash,
Silked my soul in thresh.