Long suppressed tears
Heart weighty with sorrows
A heavy down pour
In torrential flow
A floating inland
Soaked to overflowing
Wet from inside
Like Lagos rain
Blocked water ways
In a collective wrong
Turned our city
Into an ocean
Tears in my eyes
Like raindrops
Rise to drown
My mortal form
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Comments
Now this I get!
Both metaphor and allegory.