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A Poem About Chinua Achebe's Death Written 23 Years Before He Died! by 1MCN: 1:47pm On Apr 10, 2013 |
It was a very funfull day on Easter Monday April 1 this year as I and my friends paid a visit at the office of a lecturer of History in Imo State University Owerri Rev. Fr (Dr) P.C Njoku. He is the chaplain of the Catholic chaplaincy on that campus. It was in his office in that famed and glorious worship centre we met and ate and chat. From issues about life, career, marriage, relationships, politics, economy, literature, etc. It was eclectic and porsche time. And then a friend pointed at a piece poem hung on the wall in that densely book-ish office. So our discussions turned a literary feast. Fr Anthony then told a story of how he had visited Prof Chinua Achebe in his Nsukka office in the year 1990. He said, 'It was a shocking stockpile of books'. He said that there were books there in thousands of number but what amazed him most was that ALL these were complimentary copies of books written for or about Chinua Achebe sent from around the world! Then he said to himself that this man can never die again. Even he looses his breath he'll live. Then he wrote this poem entitled DEATH HAS FLED published by the journal Okike (founded by Achebe himself in which he served as editor for many years). The Poem. DEATH HAS FLED Courage! Death, has fled your neigbourhood, never to return. Were an academic epidemic to descend on this dungeon, it's mortal lashes, will fear, the hot vengeance, of the Careful Midwife, that delivered such plump babies who bear your name. Look, See, the new shine, by every homestead... dazzling in the sunshine, fluttering with fresh feathers of generous sacrifice, frothing with new wine poured in thankful libation gorgeously smeared with red blood of willing lambs. Behold a new shine a great ancestor is born! Chinua, Death has fled your neighbourhood never to return. #Poem adapted with writer's consent# God bless those who came before us, bless us, and bless those coming after us. |
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