by Henry Ekwuruke | |
Published on: Apr 12, 2007 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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Fear griped the good evening Like the masquerade of Eke on the Afor day The laughter of the moon ceased to make noise Watching the day unfold with the victim epic The irony of the dark-less night Our window vexes like the secret servant The day cannot be good anymore A good day is the day of joy But as dark as it became vision came around People talked and chatted – they eat The voices was heard without vision What a day that people looked spirit? Dumb-founded and crippled to say a word Looking into the night, no light was found Witches sold to wizards “a crime committed” A holy night as peaceful as though indeed My friend Theo, has become crime Caught in the death of a night messaging untold Police peaks the rum for cage monster Capitalizing on a holy night to make an innocent cry heard! Though not to good a night The heat made mention of its goodness Cold unleashed like creating markets in villages The gods has slept at that hour I believed Her turn to apply the principle of cook and bull Sounds less interesting to the ear Our eyes interpret more than seen Our ears hear more than talked Our expression limits our action On that very night not to good enough To talk about we vomit the spell of the serpent Differences settled in the station The voices of the people curtailed Denial set in as human right cry in cell Humans fight for self ego – perished Can the fight end with no victor, no vanquish! One saw justice whereas the another never did. « return. |