When the Fire Goes Dim [By Chukwuemeka Onyimadu]

Blood sucking demons

ravaged my body,

left me cold and

wounded to die.

Alone i lie

in cold desert country,

watching those blinking

stars that point nowhere.

Clutching flimsily

to a cold metal torch,

ignited

but burning dimly.

It burnt so dimly

I couldn't see

what lay ahead

in my lofty quest.

And so the demons

attacked,

and i, unseeing

was left wounded in the cold

just because the fire went dim.

This poem was composed by Chukwuemeka Onyimadu


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