Hemlock. A poem by Victor Onyiliagha

 HEMLOCK

 By Victor Onyiliagha

Special to  USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine, AchebeBooks.com, PhotoWorks.TV  and USAfricaTV

Ground nut pyramids

formed the skyline

of our second exodus.1

At the confluence

our passover was on dryland

to the rubicone of the rainforest

To keep Nigeria one

is a task that must be done.2

To keep Nigeria one

justice must be done.3

Harmattan clouds  of dust

thundered with southwester

The stillborn conceiv

ed at Aburi

had its sunset at yawning dawn.4

displayed in glassed morbid anatomy,

a conscientising opus

on the desk generals who whored her

from twelve to thirty six states

The sceptred centre like the Devil

 shared poisoned kolanut,

 drank poisoned chalice of light crude

and took the denizens to a minaret

promised promised and promised

and outdid Alibaba and forty thieves.

references:

1.Wole Soyinka. A Shuttle in the crypt.

2.Yakubu Gowon’s slogan during the civilwar.

3.Wole Soyinka’s tat response to Gowon’s slogan.

4.Chukwuemeka Ike. Sunset at Dawn.

•Victor Onyiliagha, U.K-based writer, contributes poetry and commentaries to USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine (Houston, Texas). He holds a Master of Arts degree in English and Literary Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

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