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*The cycle of life*- your poetically, Phoenix Lovelace d poet.

During my childhood days,
There was a tutor of ours
With a pointed nose
And he had an oval face
like the moon,
He was tall and sinewy
like a twig of a tree ;
And whenever he smiled
His cheeks warped like a crescent moon.
He was a gentle soul;
Mellowed like a fleece,
And was easily swayed like leaves
of trees
In the wind.

One day, during class,
He drew a sketch on the board
Of which he called:
"Cycle of life ".
It was a sketch
of a tender plant
sprouting in the soil,
And there was an arrow
pointing
from the tender plant
towards a tree (plant has grown to a tree) ,
A tree
bearing fruits and twigs.

Then, there was
another arrow
pointing from the tree
towards a portrait
of a man feeding on its fruits.
There was also an arrow
pointing
from the man feeding on tree's fruits
to another portrait
of the same man lying still
Six feet beneath, decaying;
There was another arrow
pointing backwards
from the corpse towards to the tender plant
sprouting in the soil.

He ended by saying:
'Man feed on plant,
Plant feed on man' ,
Cycle of life.

Another day, he strode to the class,
Looking pale and gloomy,
He asked:
If we did recall
the lessons of 'Cycle of life',
We said, yes!
He then said:
It's a ruse!
It's bullshit, he bellowed like thunders in a stormy day.

He said:
Christ was sold with a kiss
for bucks,
Man ripped man's chest to pieces,
Sold his heart and kidneys for same bulks;
Black killed White,
Whiteman turned Blackman to slave ,
Atheist brawl theist;
Man strangled man like
a sodden towel
wrung in the sink.

He ended by saying:
Man feeds on man,
That's the Cycle of life.

The next day, he came,
Now a shadow of himself,
He taught us of a plant called
'a lichen ',
Two discrete organisms ;
A fungus and an algae
living as sole unit.
He said:
If we human could be like this lichen,
Both
Black and White,
Atheist and theist,
Of any race and tribe,
The world would have been a paradise.

After a month or two,
We heard that our tutor ,
The one with the pointed nose ;
Took a noose ,
Tethered it on his neck
And dangled.