An Ode To Envy Poem by Adeosun Olamide

An Ode To Envy



Afore, Lucifer a beloved of God, a seraph that ascended the stirrers of the fallen angels,
In above a tempest stirred, one that caused the death of God (Jesus) , and man
Afore, with wings surpassing the whites of snow, flew the surface of holy mount
In grace of heaven throne
Mired with wisdom and beauty that devoid the beauty of the morning stars to mere
And still sated by drive that ambition his toil mocked not.

Brothers, a gentle shepherd and a farmer, lain offering after tough toils,
One rejected, other accepted, and this a grip loosen, one of ireful,
With offspring that dimes hatred,
In the days, (Abel) , the second son was slain by the first (Cain) .

I, born in abysmal, without spoon, breasted by calf milks
Has grown in the realm of envy, provoked to riches by it attends.

Envy! That which lay in the shades of ambition
That toils the misfortune of the gods
With weaved webs that entraps deities and man,
The purveyor of cravings shorn of us by fate

Envy! That which beat in my soul unceasingly
When across a superior my path stretches
That which hungers us to better
Or still,
Hungers me to disposes’ the better
With means devious and good

Envy! That which binds me to prominence
That curses (causes) me to misery
When nature blesses not my toil
But when
Success beams on a friend

Envy! That, which the moon does,
Unknown without light
Thus
In fame for steals from glorious sun

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