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As We Watch Them Burn . . .

Barely weeks of seven of the orgy Space crash of 117 people in a Bellview Tragedy came knocking This time harder with anger to Ginger blood off its hunger Unto the street of heaven came the commotion On the Flyers descendant to the open Field in the Rivers of Port-Harcourt Emerge the Sosoliso Tsunami Sixty future seeds of the Nation with Fourty eight others including the Woman of God Who churn out words for the Bachelors and Spinsters Burnt into ashes as the Flyer caught fire with power Before their very eyes they got burnt with The Sosoliso bird of 1145 providing the Shield to which the fire fired in Port-Harcourt Parents of the future seeds of Ignatius Loyola Jesuit Were garbed with the toga of helplessness Other loved ones waiting at the open field To receive them, had the cap of loneliness on But for one survivor they had all perished Burnt for their Negligence Burnt for their palpable Levity Burnt for their Greediness To whom shall we point accusing Finger of Sosoliso Tsunami? Unto whose neck shall we hang The blood of the Innocent lives of Bellview 117? Unto whose head shall we heap all these Garbage of calamity and catastrophe? Who shall replace the three shinning Future seeds of the Ilabor family? Unto them that sold the People’s Fliers for surplus value Unto them at the top of the Rock Who loot and siphon cowries meant for the People Unto them I say ,Unto those who shirks their Responsibilities and hang it on Private mediocres Unto them whose insidious desire is to sell Our land and the inhabitants Unto them whose long throats and wicked eyes Is driven only by profit Unto them all who shall be burnt into Ashes of Filthy history and memories Alayande Stephen .T 14th of December,2005 11.23pm For Victims of Bellview 117 and Sosoliso 108 Those that Nigerian Government sent on a Mission impossible on air for their negligence And looting galore in the Aviation Industry

Copyright © | Year Posted 2005




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