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This day was when I found the greatest Passion,
As people wailed and mourned truly from their hearts.
Rolled on the earth with eyes watered, stood
At the tip of your everlasting home
Waving hands of farewell.
“Sand-to-sand, dust-to-dust,” said the friar,
His enthralled eyes bursting with tears;
And our relatives expressed their compassion
With crimson eyes and throbbing looks,
With sobbing breathes and sad behaviours.
I told you, but you thought they never loved you;
Because we looked too hard for Love? But today,
They call you many names: Darling, Love, Peace, Happiness;
Names my ears never heard them bestow on you when you lived.
The swirl came with serenity; the rain rained with reason,
All showed love and kindness and farewell;
Children yelled and mistresses bemoaned:
Aunty has gone to rest.
But you are with me, Granny
The passion I found in you, has not been found
In anyone else – many look floozy & lack morals.
Your aesthetic beauty, the epitome of Afrikanism,
Occupied my head hum-dinger. No. Hum-bug;
I am living a hum-drum life; I am humid;
I am humiliated by the hater of our existence.
You died, but your death made our affection stronger.
I know that we all exist ever after, but cannot cling.
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Odimegwu Onwumere
Odimegwu Onwumere, a poet and an author, is the Founder, Poet Against Child Abuse (PACA), Rivers State , Nigeria . +2348032552855. apoet25@yahoo.com
If it's prose, he writes stories,
If it's poetry, he writes poems,
If it's drama, he writes screenplays,
And he has achieved some poetry nominations, in the USA and in Canada. He was born in Accra Ghana. A Nigerian by origin and is in his early thirties.
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