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    This poem describes the inevitable arrival of death in three visits. The first visit brings silence where there was once laughter next door. Faces are darkened and sorrow has come. The second visit is destructive, unannounced, and crumbles family ties by taking away breadwinners, mothers, brides, and toddlers. The third visit leaves those acquainted with sympathy, near ones with empathy, and family with apathy as they stare at the departing visitor with antipathy and questions of when and to whom death will come again.

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    This poem describes the inevitable arrival of death in three visits. The first visit brings silence where there was once laughter next door. Faces are darkened and sorrow has come. The second visit is destructive, unannounced, and crumbles family ties by taking away breadwinners, mothers, brides, and toddlers. The third visit leaves those acquainted with sympathy, near ones with empathy, and family with apathy as they stare at the departing visitor with antipathy and questions of when and to whom death will come again.

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    Inevitable

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    Abdulai Hanan R. Confidence
    This poem describes the inevitable arrival of death in three visits. The first visit brings silence where there was once laughter next door. Faces are darkened and sorrow has come. The second visit is destructive, unannounced, and crumbles family ties by taking away breadwinners, mothers, brides, and toddlers. The third visit leaves those acquainted with sympathy, near ones with empathy, and family with apathy as they stare at the departing visitor with antipathy and questions of when and to whom death will come again.

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    POEM

    INEVITABLE

    The cacophonous pleasantries


    Heard in the house next door
    Yesternight has dwindle to
    Silence that deafens
    Faces known and unknown
    Drags their feet in and out
    In a countenance of nothingness
    Throwing heads side by side
    Not wanting to foreknow
    The inevitable visitor
    Dearest and nearest soon clouds
    The ambience
    Gasping for breath that pains
    The not expect has arrived

    Yesterday’s aglow faces


    Becomes darker than ebony
    With contours that defies description
    And faces masked with intermittent
    Showers that comes unannounced
    Eroding hopes and happiness
    The barrel of laughter mouth
    Is shut with zipped lips
    Only gulping down
    Tasteless saliva that heartburns
    The sorrow bearer has arrived

    It appeared all destructive


    Unheralded from nowhere
    Without shame and conscience
    Crumbling ties that try to thrive
    Thrusting away breadwinners
    Absconding with mothers that give breast
    Eloping brides for a honeymoon
    Abducting sinless toddlers

    The acquaintances are derailed with sympathy


    The near are strangulated with empathy
    The consanguinities sophisticated with apathy
    All starring the departing visitor in antipathy
    Yet with unanswered question of
    When Again?
    And to who?

    Abdulai Hanan R. Confidence


    Nurses’ Training College
    Tamale

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