Universal Impact

  PEACE Puppeteers calmly manipulate strings from rooftops  Cajoling their stooges into orchestrated macabre dances  To entertain us with the sight Of decapitated bodies in the North In this cacophonous theatre of death Where brothers take up arms against defenceless brothers  Hacking them down like logs in the forest. Jaw-dropping clandestine commando operations  Leave in their wake the wanton destruction of life  In the desolate villages of the middle belt Torn asunder by once-docile cattlemen  Mutated to machine-gun totting merceneries  Sacking whole settlements and fertilising farmlands  With the blood of farmers Where peace in vain is sought What unity is there in death? The old sun watches as endless rivers of blood Oiled by a pervading dearth of love Flow into the crevices of our national wall Soaking the very fabric of our nationhood. There are no wise men in this fool's paradise.

 ENTRAPMENT I got lost in the deep flame of her eyes Her long hair hanging in feathery braids As she sat there beside me My heart did a staccato dance At the burst of her sultry voice Breaking my pathetic wall of defence Her laughter was the whirlwind That tied me into a million knots And tossed me into this endless maze