We Are No More

By Vicki Acquah on Thursday, April 18, 2013 Prince Kennedy & Oladeji Vicki Acquah Disappeared We- are gone diluted into oblivion we have nothing left but our footprints The handwriting is no longer on the wall The noses are broken off we are no longer us Obscurely written out of life's script, no future roles to play. The primitive man and all modern day caveman - and sand men have forgotten the people of the soil-and the trees and the water and the mountains women behaving _nonchalantly___ as they watch -us being erased; Written out of history. What is left of us we who write poetry that does not impress wealth, they eat, we die -- they drink we go thirsty, they make merry with their Dirty sex; While we imitate our exterminators. we disappear with broken noses and borrowed hair We are no more. Our costumes died then our children with no past and no future we are no more~~~~ Now that we are being created by our scribes; penned down ages before we could realize that our solemn but equivocal art, superimposed with fervent sentences bore more intonations & meanings than maidenly sought; We lie within our meditative silences. Reminiscing the helter,skelter and dither, through which our stories were told in words. While the strokes by our quills fade & shiver to sheer posterity but eventful mileages; We beseech this forthcoming generation To voice out in unison the unfinished phrases, but clauses yet again.We are now no more. Although there were a few scattered prospects yet to be achieved; we lie abed not asunder, With no regret or fear or whatsoever We are no more. Only in fiction shall we meet To play our parts with unsung aptitude. As our styles are pursued; Until then, we are no more. As life still beckons on with trajectories being preached but sold,We pray you, this age that celerity & glee fuel your palms but gumption's with deepened emotions & thinking caps. As the die is cast, Till the results are known; We are now no more!