In The Voice Of Time

By   Ezekiel Fajenyo

 

There is horror in the voice of time

tears supplies sorrows in trenches of hunger

I heard some sand- wrapped voice
through the skies of vultures queuing
for daily flesh
on streets trodden by a masked democrat,
a sworn blood- spiller of 30 years…

He fed vultures
in a season of festivities;
vultures wept when he left scene of graft and blood
shrines cursed denied of sumptuous skulls
bloodsucking praise- chanters cursed revolution__
a revolution of empty stomachs
in marketplace of tears,
tears of dried bones,marshes veins,
crashed dreams,decades of empty promises.

When next shall we expect others?

 

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