Escaping The Landscape Poem by Aziz Baako

Two Young couple race
As if to embrace
A speeding van racing
On a desolate street in Liberia.
Racing away from the effects
Of the war which had no respect
For human being.

Dead bodies lie by the sidewalk.
And the walk of town is death talk,
Death, death and hawks eating death.
Blood has flooded the streets
And the elite are bent on the diamonds.

The blue van halted around the Almonds.
This couple jumped into the van to escape
Evils of the devil.
But instead bumped into a landscape
Full of soldiers.
Few older ones,
And the others
Young with bigger guns.
.
A patrolling soldier strolled forward
With an oozy in one hand, face covered
With what looked like a hood,
The devil was peeping
Deep inside the windows while sipping
Liquor with bottle equal to the size
Of Monrovia. Olivia’s
Frightened gazed seized
The moment, A comment triggered
A rage and the soldiers waged war
On this decent and innocent people.
The couple’s terror
Was displayed in this horror.
The bullets kept racing into the van
Again and again till the remains
Went limp.

Their spirits faded into the skies
Waving the wicked world a bad bye.
Their dreams merged with the smog
That transformed into the crowded clouds.
The wind got wilder then in a sudden
It began to rain.

This couple truly escaped the war,
They lied hopelessly like
The economy of Sudan,
Partly wet in traces of tears
But mostly covered
In their own flood of blood.

A car drove from behind
While I perched under
A dripping Almond tree
With guilt, struggling to be free
From the scenes of war.
Whiles my inner man was
Quizzing God why the world
Is not sane, why humanity is reduced
To this bits and pieces of ruthlessness?

This part of the world has the greed
Of the Few overshadowing the goodness
Of the whole population. It was hard to say
But an obvious fact that there is always
A part that is not said or written and
Mostly left behind. When it comes
To happenings in the world.

This sin remain on my mind,
Always reminding me of the love scenery
Of those lovers I saw escaping the
Landscape.

Oh Lord! Please come and liberate the world.