I've Lived Here Before Poem by Emmanuel Joseph Olumakiss

I've lived here before
Ask agony and gloom
Through out the awful time
There in that fallen hut
I've layed with sorrow in a bed
Days and countless night

Then I was lacking of breath
Not too important to death
For weeks I do go to her
Pleading to reap my worries apart
And lift me from my immediate ruin

Much I've seen with the eyes
Thousand of fashioned lives
Many dressed in beautiful regalia
Loads of burden accompany their heart

Think not of wasted years
Nor the days of doom
Weep not nor worry of pain
Do not be moved over the loss of gain
For now I've come to know
There's nothing that comes from tears and remorse
Even those we mourn
None has come back to us

Lamentation has lived in this hut
Starting from the day I was born
But none has wiped my gloom
Among the years I've spent dinning in ruin

Neglect I've always met
My eyes soaked with blood
Severally I've been wet
Decorated in sack cloth
Thinking of lost glory
And busy mourning the dead

I've lived here before
When life was doubtful and rash
And nothing ever comes out of me
None is forever beautiful as we exaggerate
Still for all slip on the way
So wipe those tears in your eyes
You too can stand the bruises
With lover or no lover
With comforter or no comforter
For there were days I had no home
Not even a place to sleep
Houseless for years I've been
Then I was lacking of breath
Not too important to death
Always living in worry and tears

Think not of the mournful night
Neither the days of gloom
Make no deep scrutiny
About the plights of life
Take heart and lift your soul
And always learn to let go
For sure you will rise again.