Raign Poem by Ifeoluwa Adebiyi

It was how peaceful times had once ‘been’

‘twas the squally atmosphere that stunned me

How the upturning of grit had us loose down blinds

How the imminent comings got seers blind

See a moment’s clear sky turn frightfully bleak

And in the sight of usual optimists is a future that makes one sick

There was a sporadic lightning that emphasized coming darkness

Victims of “their own conquest” faced sudden quietness

Our protectors have all gone from the howling squall

Leaving us vulnerable to the vicious fall

The imminence of the fall we hear in reverberating thundering

How aged-wise ones tremble at infinitesimal plundering

Our abled-men, by the searing fear, are made fragile beings

The frigid moist seeping through unprotected veins



Suddenly the chunk begins

The violent usurpation of a pacific regime

“This is just a fore-taste of the worst”

Says seeing elders paralyzed by frost

Just before they ‘slept’ they hoped and prayed

That the coming burdens of youth be carried to their graves

But that wasn’t to be, the rain has only begun

Like a race, another regime commenced with the blast of a gun

With this drowning flood yet the rain wasn’t over

Bodies flooding the gory scenery over which vultures hovered

Over the waters voices louder then

More coherent decrees above a silent-flooding of dead men

Maybe one day the sun would come

Eyes looking, hearts hoping for a brightness that would calm this storm…