Posted by Chime Hilary Uchenna on
JESSE
-for victims of jesse fire disaster
charred
smoky twigs
heap of bones, uncounted
mass of human debris
ashes to ashes
a week
and three dreadful nights
a whole week of thousand deaths
death, not of a person
…death of a generation
jesse
virgin; violated
divulged of sins not hers
bare as the barren
mourn her sorrows
your children are gone!
no, not to the cities
burnt-
roasted alive
in streams of death
…the rivers of fire