Vanity Upon Vanity Poem by Rapheal Toyosi

A Word Of Six Powerful Letters 'VANITY'
That Qualifys The World And It Seeds
Of What It Entails
The Word That Wage Wars In Every Man's Heart.


The Rich Thinks Of The Word'VANITY'
Every Wealth I Acquire Are They All Vanity?
The Poor Meditate Day And Night
This Word Of Pain, Agony, Sour And Wickedness Are They All Vanity?

The Word Grows In Us Like A Tumor
It Echo's Pitifully To Our Sturborn Ears
Just As Our Ears Were Deaf
To Their Cries, To Their Appeals.

That Our World Is Vanity Upon Vanity
All That We Shall Have To Tell
Who Then Will Hear Our Guilty Voice?
Who Then Will Listen To Our Begger Plead?

When The World Of Vanity Will Be Over
When Our Dead Will Meet With The Creator
When Our Hidden Will Be View In The Open
Since We Believe And Adapt In Vanity.

If We Weep Gently
If We Cry Of Ignorance
What Heart Will Listen
What Ear Will Hear To All Repentence.

Let He That Have Ear Listen
Let He That Have Eyes See Vanity Everywhere
Let He That Have Heart Thinks Of The Last Day
This World Of A Thing Is 'VANITY'.