Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Monday, 20 January 2014

Poetry


The poetry I write
Is not by right
But for the fight
I fight for the Light.

Revealed to me after I wrote “My Beloved Sister”
In memory of Ihuaku Patricia Amadi-Lane

Lagos, January 4, 2014

Where Do Loved Ones Go

Sleep from me,
Try as hard as I could,
Slipped away,
Exhaustion,
Again, smiled not
At me today;
Undreamt dreams,
Leaving my unanswered
Question,
“Where do loved ones go?”
As good as buried,
Without an option,
Ever seeing Ihuaku again,
Alas, dealt a death-blow.

My Beloved Sister

We held hands to bazaars at Saint Mary’s
As if ensuring nothing our bonding stifled;
Both of us little cared about doll babies,
But with whatever we had were satisfied.

The months rolled into years at Campbell,
We, in chivalry and truth, waxed strong;
Mom and dad made proud, happy parents
Who, among their peers envied became.
 
Although by an ocean separated in the end,
Our conversations were only moments away.
How could I my beloved sister incommunicado
Be considered just because death so decrees?

With every word I say, every move I make,
My undying love, prayers to ease her passage,
At the door-steps of heaven I shall daily lay,
Ihuaku’s gentle soul will rest in peace hoping.

 Lagos, January 4, 2014

Hearts Many Touched

Like a bolt out of the blue
Flew fear into my saddened heart;
Anguish, bottled in rage,
Like a genie waiting to exhale,
At fringes of my mind gnawed.

But although bad news all shattered,
My world out of sync spinning, I,
In pain, better imagined, writhing,
Solace, to me a window opened.

Condolences from far and near
Via electronic mails, calls flowed
And soon, buoyed on a river of hope,
I couldn’t but see the passing of a star.

When death its worst has done
In arrogance swaggering, dead drunk,
If those whose hearts Ihuaku touched
And, if truth be told, many they were,
A dirge to her gentle soul daily sing,
We who mourn can only but win.

Lagos, January 3, 2014

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Libéré, enfin

On tirait le feu sur nous
Au campus, alors que
L’on ne s’y attendait pas
En 69.

On était étudiants nombreux
Provenant des pays divers
Et on était dans
Trois bus
Et on protestait contre
Quelques faux pas
Parce qu’on se sentait
Trahir par
Les autorités.

On était jeune
Et on ne voulait que
La justice, donc,
On était sorti des véhicules
Et on marchait en chantant
En paix.

Mais des moments
Dramatiques après, le sang
Coulait,
Cependant, les bals volaient
Toujours
Et puisque
L’on n’avait pas eu accès
Au nombre
Des morts,
Pour pouvoir,
Au moins, pleurer aux poitrines
De nos collègues
Qui sont partis au Paradis,
On a décidé  
Qu’on a eu
Assez d’une tragédie
Imprévue aux mains
Des gens qui
Devraient
Nous protéger.

Quoique l’on savait
Que notre pays naissant était
En guerre,
Et que l’on ne pourrait pas
S’y retourner,
Tout de même,
On était parti
De l’enfer
Et, en amitié,
On a été accueilli
Par un pays sympathique.

On était fatigué,
On dirait même, découragé,
Et on avait faim
De loup, mais
Finalement,
Prisonniers de conscience
Que nous étions,
On était libéré, enfin.

Le 22 juin 2013