Pandemic Poems - APRIL 2020
Obinna Chilekezi
ugobichi@yahoo.com
ugobichi@yahoo.com
The Coronavirus
This season … droplets of deathbeads Filter into humans’ home And in flashes, the globe became a theatre of fear A theatre of death We live in fear, in the soaring appetite of death blowing The wind continues to blow deadly across Leaving wrinkled cries Short of breathe to live Many became still and soon to go, and forgotten But the stubborn wind refuses to fade away We live in fear, in the soaring appetite of death blowing Mankind will rise again We will rise again We will rise again Mankind will rise again
Sleepworld
I sat At the porch Of night Daydreaming Seeing congress Of fireflies Fireflies Born before days Of modernity But I Lost in thought Flew away Into the arms Of sleepworld Of night
Another Day Gone
a bright day to behold, a new dawn of laughter and faith do I need an astrologer to decode the beam of laughter on the moon I have seen seasons of pain and known too pain and pain too painful to behold so let me walk through the backdoor and steal serum of joy you give oh it’s another day gone bye missing smiles of the moon shine on your face oh what a day to behold
©2020 Obinna Chilekezi
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