After School
they taught us to bury our heroes
and live with the belief
that everyone will die a hero.
they taught us to draw our swords
and consider not what we kill
but what we allow to live.
they taught us to find a dark place
in our heart,
to forget the world we come from;
a world of tears and despair,
of lack and dotting hunger,
of polluted rivers and poisoned creeks,
of oil spillage and devastated ecosystem.
our world where the brave die
and the poets hide themselves
in bloodied lines
they taught us to remember
the muted silence of the graveyard,
to write the history of our people
with the sword.
they taught us to escape death
by dying for our fatherland,
to buy freedom with our life and line,
to fight for the belief
that every day we live can be better.
THE OIL MULTINATIONALS!
.........they taught us too much.
Copyright © K K Iloduba Jnr | Year Posted 2008
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