Chinedu Dike Poems

The Peace Warrior of Mzansi — among heroes, a colossus!
Sun of the Nation, a rare gift of Providence.
Once entangled in the web of a racist succubus,
Unruffled, he declares before High Justice:
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With promise of a job,
He lured her into a cane field.
His gentleness, a veil of sanity.
Lurking in his mind,
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Poetic Masterpiece: A Childbirth Of Profundity.
Like delivery of Divine Revelations,
Which favours calmness of the wilderness,
It is brought forth in the Creative Glory of Solitude—
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Millions queued before the arbiter of disputes.
Hopes ran high; duty and resolve held firm.
Hearts danced with the spirit of Emancipation,
Each shielded ammo more lethal than lead,
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Self-lost in obsessive agony,
Your primal passion is a flaming ferocity,
The raging fire consumes your dignity,
And shame is put to slumber.
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January 1912, Mzansi brought forth a child
In a harsh political climate,
Destined to free her people,
Bound to cruel Fate.
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Since the dawn of humanity, the annals
of Religion have been littered with awful tales.
Sacred scriptures have blessed lives—
and sabotaged them.
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In a wayward adventure of curiosity—
lured away from the savvy of cool judgement,
he breaches the boundaries of reality
into a realm of altered awareness.
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A kind face, contorted by the torture of severe whipping,
His body a mass of torn, bleeding tissue.
Cruelty stretched beyond limits of endurance;
The scourging was halted on the brink of death.
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Colonialism pushed to the centre stage,
the recoiling phenomenon intensely illuminated
by the flame of Liberty.
Roused by the prospect of emancipatory freedom,
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