Life! Poem by Hezekiah Tiamiyu

Life!
A tragedy that is so humorous.
Many people wants to be alive,
But life doesn't want to be in them.
Man wants to live,
Life wants to die.
In this funny tragedous life
Does the fate of many lay.
Life is a bed of rose,
But not even the butterfly wants to rest on it.
I greet life a thousand times
For its good work which many
Have been made to cry through.

Life!
Show me your friend,
And I will tell you who you are.
Life's best friend; death,
Which has worked so much as life
Pain it causes to the man alive,
Joy to the man of evil.
Is life not cruel to have such a friend?
Life is the key to death.
Life has made some wretched,
Some rejected,
Some sinful,
Life has brought more Jezebel than Job.
Is life not unfair?

Lifeless life.
No wonder the newly born cries at birth,
The middle age laughs and rejoice,
And the oldest ones shed tears.
Oh! Sorrowful joy.

Life!
Why art thou choose to knock on my door,
When later shall come your friend?
Why art thou brought the wise to build houses,
When your hurricanes shall take them all away?

Life!
You brought the boy and he came
And he cried and he laughed and he cried.
You again brought the boy who came
And cried and cried and laughed.
You are as cunning as the tortoise.

Aye O!
When I become a lawyer,
I will sue you for having death as a friend.
O lovely bloody life.