Satire On Human Desire Poem by JAMIU AKOLADE ADEYEMI

Barely hung-up tattered rags
Never appear like dead frogs
Neither so should an old lad
Ever behave like bedbugs

Why, flashy car and gowns,
Dominate human desires?
Worn clogs could make them bounce
Utter lures that do expire.

Speak up! Doth utter luxury cruise
The poor man growls like thunder
If skyscraper, whatnot, make fuse
Towers too perish asunder!

You blasted wealth, go rotten!
Creaking furniture will decay
Busty buddies owe the thin nothing
Lucid love the lust delay

Baneful heads beget lashes
Lest fame be empress' desire
Haughty woods must turn ashes
For faithless soldiers do retire

Naked souls adoring hereafter,
So reap trifling repents?
Against grave hours or thereafter
You dare pay earth revenge?

Wage the celestial war for eternity-
Chase not earth, the vanity!