RETIRED NIGHT; SACKED DAY
By: Yusuff Uthman Adekola (YUA)
Tell the night:
No need to sit here
When the sun recedes to rest,
For our nation, already,
Is a reflection of the sobbing dark.
Tell the day:
No need to peep through the sky's chink
When the moon hides from the eyes,
For our country, truly,
Is a murderer of the teenage light.
There is a carnage of love here;
A smashing of our brittle bond;
Bloated blisters upon filial splices:
Woes, spreading in rippled tears...
The day is timid; the night is hackneyed;
Our home is already darkened.
WRITER'S BIO:
Yusuff Uthman Adekola, presently a student of the University of Ibadan, is a campus journalist, a poet and an essayist who believes in the correctional cum enlightening power that the pen commands. He can be reached via +2348166599760 ; adekolayusuff@gmail.com ; FB: facebook.com/adecaller01
Yusuff Uthman Adekola, presently a student of the University of Ibadan, is a campus journalist, a poet and an essayist who believes in the correctional cum enlightening power that the pen commands. He can be reached via +2348166599760 ; adekolayusuff@gmail.com ; FB: facebook.com/adecaller01
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