Nkwain Stephen

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==MY BROTHER==
His lifeless right hand was glued
To a poster that read: 'no to violence'
On his lifeless left hand, a fresh peace plant.
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Under the shelter of silence
I take refuge.
Quietude is my ransom.
Yes! If I open my mouth,
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BEHIND YOUR BARS

I can no longer beg for your mercy
I have lost my right to sympathy
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SOUL OF A VICTIM
Do not remind me of this memories
I have gone too far
You can't soothe me now
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Place your finger on lips
Gentle friend, seal my lips
Allow me not to burst into tears;
It burns me deeply!
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THE TWO DEVILS

I feel your pains like I'm the sufferer
But my mother is no Alcmene
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I will tell you to fasten your belt
Buckle your shoes and stand firm
The long awaited end is not coming soon
The rescue ship is not even in the creation
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Oh Baba!
I am still listening
Tell me another story
This time, speak from a different script
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For thirty-six moons and counting
We crossed our fingers
And opened our waxless ears
As our unblinking eyes stare from Dawn to dark and dark to dawn
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I hold tight to my dreams
The morning storm wrote my obituary
Yet I subdued the hash sun of noon
I am heavily tormented by painful doom
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All the days
All the nights
I hear no sound
Only my footsteps echoe
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YOU PROVED ME WRONG
You proved me wrong!
For years our brains can't count,
I leaned on you,
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THE JOURNEY
It was to be a long journey
A journey planned with money
It was to begin with no delay
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I LOVE KOM

I wonder how sad I would be if were not from Kom!
Will I not be like one sitting on embers?
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BAMENDA
At that gloomy moment
when our sighs,
Our cries
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I and my mother's children
lost more than we can bear.
Here is my brother's remains
Cold as ice,
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Will no one tell him
To spare me and my mother's Children?
How have we offended him
To be killed like flies?
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Brother Zimba,
It gladens my heart
To watch you
Float on Atlantic waters.
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