V: a Sudden Flame
A few kids rushed for food;
The seller-proprietors had gone
Away from the ref
Into secret places;
They hid their breathe
From the vagabonds:
The mob in intellect guise!
Food was eaten from the pots;
Those huge canteen pots, full of hotness!
O, water was drank from the taps!
Now, Sir –
The road to the forest of pantology
Received the huge flaming barricade;
It was like that flame
That bore the mark of Cain’s sacrifices:
Roaming across the earth
Evading the sacred faces of heaven –
Then, Sir –
This very road was polluted
By the roaring flame of fire;
Of course, every voice is heard,
Heard in the confusion of Sodom!
This flame burnt beside the gate;
Of course, many faces flashed in terror;
Night arrived in that day,
In this forest of pantology:
The flame and smoke reached
The shrine of old Idemili, the sacred one.
Sir –
More hailstones are hanging
Above the cracked zinc;
More flame may also blaze
On the road polluted by the smoke.
Copyright © Canny Amah | Year Posted 2009
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