Chimnonso Nwakanma

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She begrudged the cat,

who had nothing but nine lives—
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Dear humanity,
I write this to ask you,
How did we drift so askew,
to the point where
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O solemn silent nights, we crave thee,

graced with spirits; not one, two, but three,
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Delicate daisies,

donning decent dew dresses,
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On lonely pathways,

strewn with crumbs of affection,
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Sitting in the back pew,
within walls shrouded in lew,
I beheld this wonderful creature,
with a smile belighting all of nature,
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like sixes of one,
and two threes of another,
we seemed so alike,
but as same magnet poles do,
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