Crash! Poem by Henry Igbinedion

Like a bird pregnant with fibroids
The stricken eagle,
On wounded sinews

Cragged the mountain top



Pregnant with
 Medalled sons on a nation's quest…
and 
Trapped in an alien void, 

They grasped in vain

At the vortexes of fast fading lives; 



As the doomed eagle

Sickened like a bloated gnat, 
Cascaded earthwards, 
In a fatal freefall with fate



Amidst the roar of clapping thunder, and

Wedded in a sandwich 

Of broken flesh and mangled metal, 


We interred our heroes 
In the charred earth of Benue
henry igbinedion