There was a rose that faded young,
I saw its shattered beauty hang,
Upon a broken stem,
I heard them
say, ”what need to care?
With roses budding everywhere?”
There was a bird brought down to die,
I saw its limp body fall,
Upon a distant plain,
They said a hundred fall off the sky,
What need to cry?
There was a girl whose lover fled,
I watched her grieve and felt her hurt,
But i did not wait the while,
For i knew what they would say.
” There’s many another lad,
What need to be sad?”
© Ado Yiembo
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