Bloodlines Poem by A A Umar Udubo

On the hard edges of history
we carved a terrain of smiles

across the vast landscape of destiny
we left scars of echoes on the ears of time

from the light years of divine rotary
through to the distant decades of discovery
we stertored long on the bunk of a crowded solitude

but here
and now

On the faces of expectant posterity
we smile tears
from the lips of unknown kinsfolk
we laugh blood

we're the first people
we're the last people
we're human bloodlines