Octopus Poem by Uche Nwanze

I sang my heart out like it was my swan song
A big bang, it brought the roof down
Though pang of loneliness mock me, never will I be incinerated in the crucible of anguish
A thousand gang up against me under the eerie dark night, I sprang them a surprise
Though death rang her macabre melody in my head, I sink not in the abyss of despair
Though adversity bared her ugly fang in my troubled soul I swim not in the murky waters of melancholy
See my traducers taunt me I faint not, their heads they hang in shame
I am an octopus.