We would smile again
Though our faces shrink with wrinkles
Wrestling with protracted frowns,
Lost in the awe of new tunes
That conscripted us to the highest nadir
We would smile again
Though everything we had
Is blown away from the sands of time,
Leaving no trace of our roots
Like we came from nowhere
We would smile again
Though the sweat of great compatriots
Is drowned in corrupt rains
Where only Italian toads swim
And the naked are drunk with their own sweat.
We have returned from war with no arms
And all the spoils are loaded in potbellies
Banqueting with stinking bloody hands
Where there is only an axe to grind
And only rare trickles reach us
What is the lot of a lineage
Where the fathers eat sour grapes
And their children’s teeth are set on the edge
Where doom looms
And no soothsayers to warn
We would smile again
When the table takes a turn
And our booths are filled with pride again
Maybe when those cold hands snatch them away
Leaving some coins for the undertaker
Surely, we would smile again
When the Augean stables are cleansed.
I like the hopeful aura around this poem, all the lines were imbued by it.
Surely we will smile again.
many thanks to you @myne, am honoured.
Nothing like a positive outlook.
Thank you
thanks @kaycee for taking out time to read and comment, surely, we would smile again.
We will definitely smile tomorrow with no more sorrows
with poems like yours that will usher in our heroes.
The spirit of hope glows in your poem. Nice
many thanks to you @aturmercy, together, we would surely smile again in out time.
Yes o! sooner than later we pray…Revitalizing.
thanks @dotta raphels for taking out time to read this. surely, we would smile again.
Yes, better to hope against hope…Surely the Augean stables will be cleansed..and things would become right again…Nice poem…Well done…$ß
Great lines, a really nice poem. Smile again we will.
Lets hold on to this hope because it`s will definately come to reality we will surely smile again~
Nice*
thank you so much @bubbllinna, together,we’l witness a new era with our own eyes.
Many tanks to you @lancaster,together,we’l surely smile again.
Thanks @amor,our hopes’l surely come to reality…we’l smile again.
We ‘would’ or ‘will’? Future tense (which I believe works better cos of the context n tone of the poem), not Past Participle…
Nice poem.
Great. Let’s keep hope alive. All shall soon be well.