Tribute To An Icon (Chinua Achebe) Poem by Daniel Nwauzorma

Glory rests on the shores of history.
Dark dust to the scattered trails of misery.
Burning in tots, death knocks at the door.
Smiling wit tears, in its paled scaling fur.

Darkness forms around the storm.
Shielding the sad mildness of dust reformed.
Timid hue in a cloud of mist.
Forms the globules in a drenched blue feast.

The skies wither to formlessness.
Spreading the glory of a dark blue dawn.
Trees speak in whispering tears of hopelessness.
The godfather in the end...is gone.

Faded remains in the thoughts of the new.
Engraved within the stones of Adieu.
Immortality divine, the legend is forever thine.
Ever glowing in the starry requiem of the few.