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Considering "theme" as the moral or message in a literary work, one can say in the poem "Frustration", Padmore Agbemabiese expound on the trials in human nature, and the unreceptiveness or the unconcerned attitutde of nature when people are suffering. The poem raises the question of "Where is God in all our human calamities?" Padmore Agbemabiese notes

"this soul speaks of a storm with an axe/deep into its roots/and the pain is like a salty stream running through a wounded heart/yet, the fair moon's soft splendor voice laughs/and scorns and rises into starlit heaven

Why should the "the fair moon's soft splendor voice laughs/and scorns and rises into starlit heaven" when "a salty stream is running through his wounded heart"?

It seems the "moon" is actually not fair at all. Padmore Agbemabiese is a sensitive writer and he observes critically things going on around him. In the poem he observes that "I heard a voice say, no leaf will be shaken" and this is a promise he may take seriously. Unfortunately, "yet, dews like a melody scatter" everything around him. This is a betrayal of a promise. Since he did not mention who gave the promise it is obvious the promise is Divine, something his faith might have promised him. With such a disappointment "these tears are only the telescope with which I see into a heaven" or simply, the tears are the only consolation to him. (by Joseph Kirks)

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