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| A Poem Relating An Account Of The January 17 Crises Of Jos by sleazy5(m): 6:01pm On Apr 22, 2010 |
HOW BEAUTIFUL THE WORLD COULD BE What would my world Be famous or infamous for? Maybe lies, ? deceit, ? violence, ? Mayhem, ? propaganda, ? murder, ? Greed, political greed, ? hatred, ? Jalousy, ? amongst Christians, moslems, ? My world, I mean God's own or Allah's Saw the sun rise in the east As normal on a cold-sunny sunday, As evening gradually came One could hardly breath The air was solid with fear (and one wondered what was abnormal) The cries, bone shattering screams; gun shots from afar, ? The abnormal reaction To an abnormal situation Had become a normal behaviour And i raised mine eyes to heaven Clouds, snister clouds, Glowing in the west. the sky, The whole sky alive with clouds Of ever-changing shapes and colours, l From steel blue to blood red And a thought struck me, As cold as the guns sounding from afar, Piercing my heart like a bullet Passing dexterously through a child's skull Scattering its contents on the blood filled earth Making fod for the vultures Hovering hungrily above. "How beautiful the world could be, " I looked again, From afar, accross the road My eyes picked out a blood red truck Filled with sleeping bodies, I mean dead bodies, smeared With red dirt, or was it blood, ? Then there was a silence, From somewhere, a bird Sang a desperately sad tune An unusual tune Not spoiled by frequent singing, The bird wept and a part of me wept with it For at that same moment, in that same truck Someone had celebrated his 18th, 25th, Or was it a 30th birthday? A someone had just celebrated His birthday of death. And again the thought struck Louder than the delibrate explosion of a car, Wilder than the inferno that gutted a house, "How beautiful the world could be, " Let us set ourselves like a seal Upon our hearts For love, Love is as strong as death. |
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