A Requiem for my Homeland. #Nigeria

Their ghosts cast long shadows
the trail is too far to follow
their footprints
constant reminders
of what we are
mere mortals
wandering this part of the creation
Plans for yesterdays and the future
all in disarray, a flicker
and it's gone in a twinkle.

My heart sobs and throbs
to the distant dirge of drums
echoes of  voices
 from yesterday
Searching for
answers today.
If the  sage
forgets his message
the babies fall from the skies
their  crimson insides
wrapped around the heads of elders
Did you speak out
they cry
Did the gongs of truth
drown their voices?
The voices of the crimson headed elders

It is late now
For their ghosts tread paths
A trail too far to follow
Heads bowed in sorrow
Teeth jarring in pain.
Eyes brimming with tears
Tears that fill the Oceans
the babies falling from the skies
Children, of tomorrow
All gone in a twinkle
For the sage forgot his message
the gongs of truth too faint
To be heard.

This is a tribute to the memory of those who went before, who are still dying today, and the Crash victims of the ill-fated DANA AIR plane crash in Nigeria on June 3, 2012
  National Youth Service Corpers were murdered in cold blood in the aftermath of the Presidential elections in April 2011

Teidi Tosin Olawale

Nkwazema Anslem Chukwunonyerem

Okpokiri Obinna Michael

Adowei Elliot

Adewunmi Seun Paul

Adeniji Kehinde Jehleel

Gbenjo Ebenezer Ayotunde
Ukeoma Ikechukwu Chibuzor

Akonyi Ibrahim Sule