The Blood Of Innocents Stains The Land Poem by Joseph Oladehinde Ibikunle

The blood of innocents stains the land
It splashes every street and crescent
Behold the song of funeral band
Howling from nigh and distant adjacent.
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The blood of innocents stains the land
Her children rise against one another
See the shell of destruction on a livid hand
Waiting in ambush in revenge of his brother.
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The blood of innocents stains the land
It paints the green and taints the white
Peace becomes perilous - blood sucked by sand
A favoured federation in a bleeding blight.
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The blood of innocents stains the land
It flows like floods of erosion
The truthful and their truth can not stand
We sleep in voyage upon the river of oppression.
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The blood of innocents stains the land
It splashes and spills over the air
Not even plenty prayer on holier ground
Can indeed atone our chaos and fear.
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