The Lady Who Desecrated My Name: Poem by Ekwueme Kelechi

Earth people join me in teary merriment
For I have found the lady
Who desecrated my name

With stars as eyes
She raped the name
For which my ancestors

With chests that dared everything
And strength that abused all
Were baptised with panegyrics

My ancestors who spoke the language of the air
And feast on the table of bravery
With fearless dangles that know the earth

They who caught the sun in her nakedness
Enslaved her
And instructed her when to do shakara

She's a lady
That interprets the sermons of many waters
Her portrait is the crescendo of life

She wields the ray of light
Which the eyes pipes up
And with it commands the skin colour of the sea

She desecrated my name
With a beauty
That mended another man

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Shakara- - a word that depicts pride

(c) EKWUEME KC,2018.