ANGELIC DEMON by Jamiu Ahmed



ANGELIC DEMON

The society has become an hydra, multifaceted 
Mortals now exhibit  paradoxical identity

The firmament is now a universal mirror
Reflecting contradictory images at dawn

I peeped, I saw an extended metaphor 
of different figures, misrepresented like:

  • "Ancient devil donning Jesus new garment
  •  Ailment physicians with infectious hands
  •  Aid hands now littered with thorny trees 
  • Builders gathering loose sand as castle
  •  Gatekeepers aiding & abetting sons of gun
  •  Hatchers consuming the public eggs
  • Harbingers with devoid evangelism
  • Market women pregnant of shadows
  • Peppery winds from the mouth of kin
  •  Parasitic parent housing adopted children
  •  Pen instructors with stone-dead heads
  • Planters planting poisonous parasols
  • Reservoirs spewing through the loopholes
  • Soul saviour serving sour salmon"


Home is now an art gallery veiled by cobwebs
But our brooms are too short to dust them off

So how do we cleanse a dirty soap?

For mortals now exhibit both angel & demon
Killing & saving the world concurrently


©® Jamiu Ahmed

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