Modernity Poem by DOMINIC PREMPEH

There is a new community
This new community knows no night
The new community is fast and very smart
The new community is tireless
And the new community is entirely sleepless

The new community calls itself city
Here, the living and the dead scramble for space
Here, man bets even his blood for property
And fights for every available space of land
And the new community calls this modernity

(Dec.,2015; Ofoase)