Used To Be Poem by Alison Mujati

Used to be

Need for eloquence not grins
Joy gone just bald gums
Talking ate up totems,
Teeth long swallowed now languishing in intestines
The nose has grown dry
Wetness of mucus has since departed
Throat as silent, no more persistent phlegm
The flow of tears repeatedly has ceased
No adrenaline, no nerve, the body is seized
Skeletons allover now a place of the skull
Dogs of bones no longer visit
Salivation has also ceased

Bleeding hearts, songs of sorrow
A foe who betrayed fellow soldiers
Out in no fear but greediness
Gorillas likeness to man, does it give them special personalities?
In samenature, they remain chief apes

The worst has made us strange and strong
Gone is frailty and timidness
Keep searching, you end up wailing like foxes

All the ladder to greatness we watched you climbing,
While snakes in the same gameswallowed us to one
Not at all amusing watching back falls,
Still, bosoms knew every dog has his day
Proverb befitting, webecame on lookers,
Rather sight seers witnessing prophecy unfolding

No lot casting
Clear as crystal, Jack and Jim will grow old
Childhood ends and always gives way to adulthood
Why are people naive to think high flying birds will forever be on wings?
Crying out loud with no tears to harvest
Formality to ask yet as teachers know ideal answers
No one cares for self inflicted trauma, especially for formally thick-headed counterparts.
People play mind games and give sympathy which is not

Nevertheless, trouble within us
Lameness that is laughable at death, we pay attention
Yet bosoms know tattoo scars are your own to look out, not for others to worry about

Tears, tears and more tears
Wishing for life once lived,
Advice which man never take

Painful death of a snake dying from own bite
Things of your own must not make you sob

Great was the past, sad is present, ? whoknows the future