THERE WAS A COUNTRY

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Saturday 13 August 2022

DEATH LURKS

Death !!!

They say it is inevitable

Death is truly unquestionable

Why do people die?

Why do people survive?

No! why do people survive so they can die?

Questions

No answers

I used to think that death was curse

I came to realize that death is a blessing

But now i have learned that death is both

I heard the cries of the bereaved

Like the trumpet of an elephant, as i perceived

I saw the earth that was dug

Heaped upon a child that was once

A dreamer of hope

A servant of wealth

I saw tears from spirits that rise

I saw fright in pretense of a smile

Why do men walketh upon the earth with sheer arrogance?

A metaphor indeed to a laughable but innocent ignorance

Death is coming our way

The good news is that we do not know when.

AHMAD GANI

Wednesday 10 August 2022

THERE WAS A COUNTRY

There was a country

It is not far from how it was near
It has a name conceived from cowardice and fear

It is a place where anger is sowed
It is a place where reaped harvests are stowed

There was a country indeed

Leaders are shameless to stupor
Followers are left in admiration of The Tudors

The street are littered in Guns
Painted by sorrowful kids who mourn

There was a country

A country garnished in impending anarchy
A country smeared with filthy oligarchy
A country after my heart
A country that awaits my wrath
A country who preach religion more than the almighty
A country who treats humanity heartlessly

There wasn't any county
It was just a failed Lugard's hypocrisy

I picked my pen from the basket of tears

©Ahmad Rufa'i Umar Gani

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