Triste Triste La Vie Poem by Owuor Lowry

Hearts breaking
Hopes…what hopes?
Minds disbelieving
Mouths widening
Whilst voices..
Others' voices
Deafening

Loves ending
Cares dwindling
Respects lapsing
Misery proliferating
And have you seen
Stomachs twinging?

Joys fading
Skins paling
Bodies thinning
Eyes yellowing
And diseases,
Direly multiplying

Deaths approaching
Resistance building
Atrocity normalling
Pockets emptying
Legs frailing
and tears,
Unapologetically flowing.