Ekwueme Kelechi Poems

You've drown my heart with the ocean of love
You kept it under the spell of your heart
You initiated my fragility into the springs of your agility
My hands can no longer delay to host a smile on your neck
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We are the crumbs that fell from the bread of war
We escaped their table but not in whole

We were rejected by death
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The day civilization shot our legs
We desecrated the sacredness of Mmiri Oji
We deflowered the flowers of our land
And fought the powers that be
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If mouths have refused to wag
At the innocent killing of souls
The pen will never kowtow
Quite unfortunate, only few lips have determined
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For the sake of Tethani
Send me back to my lovely home
Send me back for my soul longs for it
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Crying and weeping
Is all I know best

Seeing and mourning
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Thy glory unimagined
That springeth forth from thy crust
Glowing the nature of thy creator
Your fiery eyes
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For the killing of her naked children

Mother demands apology
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Give me those sweet rhymes
That makes glad my heart
Give me those rhymes
That makes me bright in the night
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When all is said and done
Let not our love be gone
Stay with me that we may cultivate the loin
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