by Odimegwu Onwumere | |
Published on: Aug 23, 2006 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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Mordant and Mawkish are your dealings, So what wisdom do you have? Our best men have become Your best enemies, Our wise men are ashamed And our land dismayed in dire; Everyone is not given to covetousness But you are hurting healing wound We had in nineteen ninety-nine, We had in two thousand and three. For behold, you are a serpent Living among the living; Listen! Our hearts are faint in us And we comfort ourselves in sorrow. The cry of the Eve of our land Is echoing from a far distance: Is there no God in our land? Is there no king in our land? Why do you provoke us to anger? Astonishment has taken hold of us For the hurt of any of our men We are hurt. Has sanity come to our land Since you began this biting business? As long as we are not save in our land Be also rest assured that you are not save. God wouldn’t be deaf to our cries! « return. |