Poem of the Week: O Twisted Twenty Twelve

By Nehi Igbinijesu

 

Go from us, thou fleeting year

Depart with all your fear

The blood, and grim for all we care

Your time was all but fair

Tarry not a dreary day longer

They bombed, some died

And the rest pointed fingers

During weeks you did provide

 

You a dirge I write

For blood drunken you heave

A sigh, a playful plight

At many souls you did bereave

 

O twisted twenty twelve

The weeks of bleeding blood

Bowels bursting undeserved

Bombs, crashings and many floods

Days in salient suffering

Subsidy and occupy rallies

And bullets in streets reeling

 

There was a country

In peace, once we knew

Until bastards awoke

Plummets, shacks and shrivels

With fear you did evoke

 

This Poem is part of the anthology of 30 Poems titled: “Dirges of The Niger” By Nehi Igbinijesu.

 

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