When The 'enlightened' Become The Savages Poem by *Tony Cemaluk Egbuonu

Marks of Savages

Mary stopped one: the killing of twins.
Florence stopped another: the abandonment. She nursed the wounded in savage wars.
Others persisted but fizzled out with time,
not with huge sacrifice as Slessor and Nightingale,
just mere mass enlightenment.

Among the savage acts that stopped
was the burial of powerful kings with many fresh heads.

Ivory tower, home of enlightenment,
with supposedly enlightened occupants,
should not have any vestige of savagery
except occupants that refused to inspire or be inspired,
update or be updated,
teach or be taught,
impart or be imparted,
cite or be cited.

Death, a natural phenomenon,
comes at the end of one's life, career, sojourn.

Disturbing.
Modern savagery:
a full-circled occupant of ivory tower
plotting to pack out with pure-minded heads, packed with productive brains,
the primus inter pares, first among equals,
best among the best, beautiful brides.

Germans call such Infamie,
Igbo call it alu, nso,
Scripture calls it sacrilege, abomination.
In academia, it has another name:
the self-made sadist, pariah in robes.