Elegy For Garissa, Kenya Poem by ENOCH JOHN

Caught up in an ever more evil and widening gyre things have fallen apart,
For I saw only today in a newspaper a picture of a beautiful black woman,
Holding aloft a candle and a rose that didn't care to hide her sadness,
At the atrocious crime in Nairobi, Kenya at Garissa University College.
147 had been killed.Some had come by sacrifice, some by scholarship,
I cannot tell, to fulfill their lives' dreams which became ultimately a nightmare for family and friends when extremists with some silly nomenclature stormed the college.
What dark, macabre, machiavellian power would cause such tragedy,
What depraved, misplaced, nonsensical ideology would drive this evil?
That men who likely had spouses and children of their own,
To the pit would stoop to rain grief, pain and tragedy upon others.
O world! Shed a tear for Kenya! O world! Weep for Garissa,
Weep all night long for a dark cloud hangs over Africa and our world,
Eclipsing the sempiturnal sunshine of love, caring and tenderness!