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We no longer weep
uche peter umez
uumezurike@yahoo.com
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
We no longer weep:
empty baskets
threadbare nets
glum fishermen
niggling wives
tattered children
restive youths
groaning bellies
drooping breasts
parched faces
lament for the lost plenteous past?
protest against the pestiferous present?
moan out dirges for our forlorn future?
we no longer weep:
warm rains corroding the comfort of rooftops
eroding the exuberant green of trees
smeared swamps
clogged creeks
awful air
fishes flopping in the Delta of oil
farms burrowed through
by bulbous pipes of despoliation
our lives are Shell-ed
stalks of shrivelled sap:
we no longer weep
even for the death of Heroes
who rattled the dreams of Them?
See also:
uche peter umez:
The unruly singer
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