The Dead And Gone Poem by Folayemi Akande

Dead is the master, dead is the son
Their swords and bows are now left forlorn
Gone is the ocean and gone is it tide
In muteless sprawl sails the waters glide
Gone are the angels, gone is the Nile
The sky is void and dauntly looks rile
Dead is my heart beat, dead is my all
I am lone and bitter as a gall
All the moon does is ray its burn
Leery the sun, its hue is long gone
The time has passed when life was formed
Its ashes now are meant to be tombed
Gone are the roots gone are the leafs
So now is life, a neck without sleeves
Gone is the thrush gone is her song
For death has come to hush her along
Let the lark lure us down to the lair
What we may find I know not I fear.