'Slayer of Men' by Abdulbasit Abubakar Adamu

Dancing with the rain during the rainy days

Everywhere all around moving the sun rays

A brake to life and an accelerator to the hereafter

Traditionally known and your existence no one can alter with

Have you no friend, brother or sister?

Death takes our sorrows away

Eventually our happiness is embedded in that which is taken away.

Arrows you send is drying world up like a desert

Tell me would you want to wine and dine, would you want a dessert?

Have you no friend, brother or sister?

Don’t walk away from us

Each of us want you in our midst

As you wash away the sorrows of these earth

Taking us to meet our Lord.

Happy we will be to meet him.

Abdulbasit Abubakar Adamu is an upcoming writer and avid reader. His poems have been published in local dailies, blogs and anthologies. Adamu is a final year student of Mass Communication, Ahmadu Bello Zaria. You can follow him on Twitter/Instagram @ab_wordsmith and read his poems on www.abaseet.wordpress.com

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