'Keep Calm Somadina' by Prince Nwachukwu

Your tears have heaped a deluge on the ground

As your eyes have long known no sleep

In counless nights have you kept awake like watchmen

Wrestling with the wounds and pains of your predicament

Wishing you better had never known about life

From the lab the analyses have kept you listless

The reports, as hot as furnace, have melted your marrows

Keep calm Somadina: the rain can never rain forever

Perhaps friends have left you forlorn in isolation

Your family too might have indirectly quarantined you

Your foes, they say you rot and stink

And that have aggravated your plight each day

Rip off the shades that muddle your vision

For soon shall your bedridden days abruptly cease

Keep calm Somadina and let hope eclipse you

Your earthworm skeleton shall surely stand strong someday

And you shall someday feel the fill of joy

Away with your fears of death and impending danger

For the Giver of Life knows and comprehends all

So dry those tears and rest your strained nerves

That your cracked soul might at fresshness be.

Prince Nwachukwu(PrinsGrandboy), a student of Federal Polytechnic Nekede Owerri hails from Ekwedim, Isiala Mbano L.G.A. in Imo State. He is a 'write-worm' who does not sleep until a creative work of art is instigated and realized. Therefore he takes pleasure in all genres of literature and writes them, not just for self edification, but for didactics and general edification of the masses. He also loves music and sees every writer(especially Earnest Hemmingway) as his role model.

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