Someone should teach me how to write a love poem
I’d love to learn but there is a problem
I’m peeping through a broken window
I watch as a young wife turns widow
Gunshots sound familiar like a ring tone
Armed youths carry guns about like phones
Close to the checkpoint are swollen corpses
And killers conduct the autopsies

And you tell me to write a love poem
Maybe you are too blind to see the problem
Bad news now rent my nightmares
I woke up as a cry of a bereaved twitch my ear
Nothing is a taboo anymore
The signs in the fetid air read war
Bloody tales come as daily menu
There is a congress of vultures and I know the venue

A love poem will burn my lips
If you don’t know, let me give you some tips
The unemployed graduates roam about without a smile
Kidnappers dance in return from exile
Militants get chieftaincy titles, they deserve…
National honours for criminals’ exclusive reserve
I see evil men adorned with accolades
As my once blossoming dream fades

Someday I will write a love song
Right now the timing will be wrong
Right now suicide bombers never rest
Right now the garbage heap is Everest
Right now we are beggars in our own field
Right now we see the flying arrows but we have no shield
Right now I see faces with creases of sadness
Right now I call it unphatomed madness

A love poem should be removed as a bad tooth
In the jaws of my imagination
I mourn with heavy letters in my mind
Tears flow down the bony cheek of the night
Our mace is safe in the talons of vultures
Owls are now sentinel at our brick house
I see chunks off bullets on my broken window
How many cups of tears can wash our faces?

Hmmmm, I drop my cap for you op! nice one, it's well written and coordinated... plus it has a rhyming rhyme scheme "aabbcccc"...keep it up!

What a great concept. Keep the poems coming.