Chronic Regret Poem by Moahammad Maleki

Death stalking me right now

cadaverous face
Trembling lips
Wailing and gnashing of teeth

Sweet cataract cascading down on pits
thwarted by lids
Trampled by fists
Flowing on corrugated visage

Hairs gummed together with perspiration
Gripped fists
Coiled feet
Squatting and shivering out of pure dread of death
I had never coddled myself so affectionately like this

Angle of death,
chiding me of wasted life
That frittered away like dust by the air wipes away
Rebuking me for diamond lost
for dawdling along margins of futility
For loitering in street of oblivion

Reprimand me for vegetate in such an monotonous life
For virgin thoughts
And congealed ideas

Pain, my ultimate shroud, glistening in darkness

Chronic repent
Remorseful chronicle.
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