Richard Nnoli Poet Epic

Praying

praying 
am still praying 
yes tell the dead infant 
I don't know why 
it has to be so 
am still on my knees
it hurt me but I don't mind
so tell the man just 
gun down in a broad 
daylight 
I don't know why it 
has to be so 
am still on my knees
it hurt me but I don't mind 
cos with all I see 
make me never stop
praying 

praying 
tell the lady 
that just got raped
by the men on carton 
colour kaki war jacket
she is on emergency ambulance
on the rush to the hospital
it could be your sister tomorrow
it could be mine 
in the cities of calamities
I don't know why it has to be so 
am still on my knees it hurt me
but I don't mind cos
am still
 praying

praying 
tell the refugees am on 
my knees 
tell the world am still 
praying cos their is too
much atrocities in places
tell the priest I am hurt 
tell my president my knees
hurts me 
I don't know why this 
prayer is taking too long 
yet am still 
praying

praying
am still praying
yes I let the world 
know I can't stop now 
cos am not blind 
with how humans are 
slithered on a broad 
daylight 
with all this vapours 
of wars in high place
what can a flesh and bone 
like me do 
nothing but keep
praying

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