Modesty! Poem by John Ugolo Umah

They are all gone
none exist behind again
use to stay behind
the curtains in our homes

we wear them as we go out
we keep them behind the curtains
when we have come in to rest
modesty! Our then life

modesty have elude our homes
now gone far away to the city
of the bush with clarity to gaze
modesty of the nomad man now

like flies at day and the night insect
they lead the city of the town
with no modesty of the tongue
with no modesty of the body

untame lips to uncovered hair
what a posterity that we have witness
modesty! A no longer life
modesty! We call you come home.