Tomorrow Will Come Poem by Tony Adah

Somehow the dawn came
The golden sun rose with a torrid shine
Winds shredded the snowy clouds
The sky smiled with its azure teeth.
Then the noon came
Dusk happened twice
Palpable darkness ruining the land
Bioluminiscent insects twinkled
Above and aground
They saw our food and pilfered it
Slowly we'd survive the famine
Sleep bowels void
Waiting for our voices to howl
Our clinched fists to punch the bad air.
We woke up
Still it was night
This is what we saw as the children
Of our own fathers and fathers of
Our own children
In the dark mesh that hems us in.
The weather is still bad
Line and sea qualms rumble
To humble the empire
Thunderbolts hummed
Lightning struck trellises figments
In the sky;
This is what will show us the way
When we wake up to see the sky
Unfurl the sweetness that our children
Have been waiting for like a rose
Its fragrant Whorl.

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