THE SUN

Oh ye the sun
Why have you been stubborn like son
Consistent in gazing at ground
Endlessly waxing around the town
The ground is as though as husk
But you never consider the gross of dust.

Why have you always unleashed your anger
Treating your people as though we are stranger
Have you forgotten your mandate to the man on earth
To the extent of being a straw to uproar his thirst

Oh the sun when will you dismount from us
Thy wicked eyes of drought and blocks
Thy hotness of thy eyes is severe to man
And the warmness of thy time has defied the land

You cool a hand with liquor
But beat a man to stupor
Your good works are never rejected
But your hook ones are ever dejected

You dread not the men
And you fear not the rain
Punching out the rays to the cloud
And mulching out the blaze to the crowd

A pregnant woman you spare not
Not even a new baby you spare wrath.
You make a giant a lazy man
And rename a Goliath a baby man

Oh the sun when shall ye retreat
And remove thy bricks along the street
The calves of men are now like blades
Crushing the earth as ruin abrades.

Our body is now at stake
Just as our colour is now mistake
Your dryness is never to quench the quake
But to bring the earth to thirst and quake

Oh thy sun I beseech thee to leave the earth alone
Your mandate to man is to bring the earth to growth
And not to bring the earth a groan.
Thus we appeal thee the sun
Dismount thy host from men and go.

© Izunna I. Okafor 2017

About The Poet:

Izunna Okafor is a multi award wining creative Young Nigerian Writer, poet, essayist, publicist and Igbo Language Activist who hails from Ebenator Nnewi South L.G.A of Anambra State Nigeria.
He has written and published many books, including novels, short stories, poems and articles both in soft and hard copies. He writes both in the Igbo and English Languages and has published in both of them.
Izunna who is also a 400 level public Administration student of Unizik has won and been nominated for various writers awards, including the NYSC Essay Competition 2012, NAPAS Essay Competition 2017 (overall winner), Nigerian Writers Award/Indigenous writer of the year 2015/2016, Society of Young Nigerian Writers Award/Pita Nwana prize for Igbo Literature 2015, Nigerian Heritage Icon Award/ Young Writer of The Year 2016, Federal Republic of Nigeria, SLAM Youth Hero International Award/Innovative Youth of the year 2016, AEYC/ Outstanding Youth of the Year 2016, Ark Foundation Quiz Competition 2016, NAPAS/ Award for Academic Excellence 2016; Inspire Award /Intellectual Youth of The Year 2017; NAPAS Academic Icon of the Year 2017, among others. He was also nominated for The Future Award Africa 2016/African Prize For Education, which is the biggest and most prestigious African Youth Award.
He belongs to and is a leader in various writers association, both at state, zonal and National level. Izunna is the Ambassador of Read Across Nigeria in Anambra State, as well as the coordinator of the Society of Young Nigerian Writers Anambra State Chapter.