What's rendered me an impotent of life,
while others live a life with vibrant hum?
A curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife!
While other lives with fine success are rife,
my own's deplete, a curse has sure become
what's rendered me an impotent of life!
Through failure to provide I've lost a wife!
Though I believe, there are those doubts in some,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife
cannot exist, they say, I'm a midwife
to all my troubles, I am who has done
what's rendered me an impotent of life!
Or maybe I've insulted a spaewife,
who cast, to love and money make me dumb,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife.
I've searched from North Recife to Tenerife,
and failed to find a way to make undone
what's rendered me an impotent of life,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife!
(C)2012, Christos Rigakos
Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012 at 6:27 PM UTC
What's rendered me an impotent of life,
while others live a life with vibrant hum?
A curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife!
While other lives with fine success are rife,
my own's deplete, a curse has sure become
what's rendered me an impotent of life!
Through failure to provide I've lost a wife!
Though I believe, there are those doubts in some,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife
cannot exist, they say, I'm a midwife
to all my troubles, I am who has done
what's rendered me an impotent of life!
Or maybe I've insulted a spaewife,
who cast, to love and money make me dumb,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife.
I've searched from North Recife to Tenerife,
and failed to find a way to make undone
what's rendered me an impotent of life,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife!
(C)2012, Christos Rigakos
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