Dim lfeanyichukwu
@dimlfeanyichukwu
1 year ago
WHEN THE SUN WENT PALE
When the sun went pale
You caused it
We have lived with your havoc on earth
Of all, what is the gain?
Thy death you accepted without questioning
You blew asunder the hope we had for life and our dreams you shattered
When the sun went pale you did not know
When the moon bled you did not know
When the moon refused to shine
It was like a dream
But when the moon shone
You were happy
When you inflicted the pains of a crushing heat in the depths of our hearts
You did not know
Religion cropped thy sense to sin
Thou shall not kill was a commandment embedded in thy hearts
But you stooped to kill
You sacked our villages
Slit the throats of our grannies and our grandpa's
You hacked to death
Our daughters were raped and our youths
You did not spare
Preying on them like vultures is to dead bodies
And our houses are in flames
From the Sahel to Kaduna
You slaughtered sleep
And wielded destruction in your coat of death down to the Plateau
Which lies on Delimi River
Near the source of the Jamaari River called Bunga Farther downstream
The village of the Biroms
That wasn't enough
You sojourned to Maiduguri
Which sits along the seasonal Ngadda Alo River
Which disappears into the Firki (black cotton) swamp of the lake Chad
There you clamoured for a Caliphate with brute killings
Detonating bombs and cutting bodies into bits
While we slept, you trusted a sword in our hearts
And took captive two hundred and seventy figs in the gloomy town of Chibok
Fifty Seven figs escaped and the remain you whisked away
The hashtag bring back our girls went viral
And the world stood still and yet the truth unrevealed
Over the years, one hundred and seven figs were released to fate
But the remain, you sold to slavery and kept some for self
There is great pain in our hearts
When we remember your deeds
Our cries are in tone and our tears undried
That wasn't enough
You took another one hundred and ten figs from Dapchi
Five answered death's call
And you released the others except Leah Sharibu the Christian girl
You married her off
Impregnated her and gave her parents pain, sorrow and tears as bride price
Reapers of havoc
Havoc! I mean havoc
Which havoc?
You planted a seed of discord in the depths of our hearts
A seed that brought us to ruin
A seed that left heads disentangled and bodies maimed beyond repair
The spirit of the innocent help us
We are standing on the other side of life
And a great chasm separates
Religion! I mean Religion
Which religion?
Jews, Christians and Muslims alike
One God our creator
Our blood cried like Abel's
And the ground drank to its satisfaction
When blood flowed like a torrent
When blood spilled like tea from a falling mug
Thy stay on earth is transient
We all came to buy
We shall all return to render
The sun has gone pale
Pale enough to see
How we hide away from fate
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