Longest Letter Poem by Tony-Cemaluk Egbuonu

Longest Letter

Rating: 4.5

My sister, dear
Death, last time there
Rejected you then
In His name

So strong and sure
That shame was theirs
And their cronies, crooked
Awaiting to shed there

Their tears, as of crocodiles
Sealed with a seal
Of thunderous Amen
Believed I you

As you demised
Bitterly wept I
Not for dying
For all must

But, leaving before
And behind
Your husband,
Your cross

For decades carried
Duly and dearly cared
Deserved no blame
For dying,

For death
Desired not you
Far thee well there
Sister Louisa, my dear.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Posthumous letter to my sister who died leaving behind her bedridden husband who later followed suit as captured in A Bow Out.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kingsley Egbukole 20 September 2023

Dealt of a relation is indeed very painful. Well written

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