A Peace Message from the Dead
My bosom kinsmen just came from dead,
He brought a tiding from the underworld beneath,
Alas! Their world is full and over-populated,
“All these tender souls are not from Death;
What a despair, what a shame!
Their ghosts came with empty skulls and gravely wounds,
The graveyard swarmed with toddlers from warring zones,
Wantonly their lives were so greatly ruined”;
So remorseful I am, for the war and strives we caused,
So sorry for the trees and birds that died along;
The wailings from the plateau still hauntingly bites,
From the grave also came the elergy of songs;
Sheath all swords and all fighters be still,
Break up the guns and let there be peace;
Disband your army for the grave is full;
Peace is Possible; all conflicts must cease.
Gafar Olorunleke Odubote, “A Peace Message from the Dead”, copyright 2018
He brought a tiding from the underworld beneath,
Alas! Their world is full and over-populated,
“All these tender souls are not from Death;
What a despair, what a shame!
Their ghosts came with empty skulls and gravely wounds,
The graveyard swarmed with toddlers from warring zones,
Wantonly their lives were so greatly ruined”;
So remorseful I am, for the war and strives we caused,
So sorry for the trees and birds that died along;
The wailings from the plateau still hauntingly bites,
From the grave also came the elergy of songs;
Sheath all swords and all fighters be still,
Break up the guns and let there be peace;
Disband your army for the grave is full;
Peace is Possible; all conflicts must cease.
Gafar Olorunleke Odubote, “A Peace Message from the Dead”, copyright 2018
Comments
Post a Comment