Posted by Augustine Nwaka on
Oh! War, war…
The war of survival
War of many wars!
War of many coups!
War of many vandals!
You are a philistine!
War that came tearing down…
War that wreaked despairs!
You separated Chris from the ‘living beings’…
Oh! War, war…
You put a spear
Between Chris…
Oh! War,
What was your ‘legal justice’?
For in pains, we mourned!
In despairs, we cried!
In sorrows,
…the fallen heroes stood aloof!
In wreckages of the Nigerian Civil War
Still reeks…
Like a mere doom…!
Like a doom that came
In ‘doomed deeds’!
Oh, Chris
Of blessed memory!
You are the living and the dead!
Who knows…?
In self-defense,
You fought!
You were a war hero!
You were a literary icon!
Sleep! Oh Chris!
For the memories of the war-coup
Has told your fortunes!