Olympus
Olympus
Built from the milky flame descending from the Potter's nebula,
Forming a colossal pyramid,
Here dwell the labouring mothers
Of human destinies, fine-tuning the vast fields of raw imagination through the ages,
Shaping the celestial elevation we cherish as civilisation.
How did we defile the holiness of heaven,
That your hailstones pound our rusted roofs,
And drag our habitats deeper into Hades
By insatiable quakes?
Olympus, devouring our peace of mind
With air raids and precision strikes,
Annihilating a generation before a womb can conceive,
Clouding every morning with the thick smoke
Of war's ballistic cigarettes.
O Olympus,
You were a saviour yesterday
And a murderer today.
Uche Chidozie Okorie
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