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Again! We woke up to the gory tale of another one A carnage of a gargantuan quantum An appalling scenario That left us wondering of an inferno Once again, Terror reigned like King over us Jos, the capital city of Plateau Was agog with an unbridled massacre The warriors of faith are at it again The unfaithful ones fighting faith's fight Were let loose once more for no cause Hundreds of innocent lives were wasted Houses scorched at will Human life was made cheap You need not haggle price Corpers lives were not spared In their quest to observe the land’s clarion call Striving for national integration And dreaming of an elusive unity They got massacred serving their father’s land Whilst! Their fathers were served with cup of sorrow Their mothers served with plates of tears In their prime age in life They were cut short like a tree destined for firewood Dreams of Tola Odesola (23) got shattered Aspirations of Ibukunoluwa Akinjogbin (23) got buried Hope of Leke Akande (20) got twisted Fate of their families became ill-fated Indeed, another black day in our already black calendar Jos carnage in our land It is another . . . Chapter of insecurity A page of dehumanization A paragraph of brutal killing A sentence that carries dreadful thought A phrase of intolerance A line of political bigotry A word of hatred Alayande Stephen T. 9.46pm December 4, 2008
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