WE ARE WAITING

by EDMOND EKO
(CALABAR!,CROSS RIVER,NIGERIA )

WE ARE WAITING

Here where faces wear pallid frown
Bones rattle in helpless pain
Smiles freeze in cauldron of cursed blood

Where the soil is in want of birth
There was once a thick vegetation
Spanning this gusty humming desert

I remember in limpid recollection
The chanting lull of the merging waters
Whispering loudly the beauty of the land

These grotesque strewn fresh mounds
With scattered wreaths of sad moments
Are the upshots of the woes of the land:
The sins of the politicians visiting the masses

We've piously sent petitions through heaven’s gate

Waiting for the hand of comeuppance
We've fervently raised our faith taller...
Waiting for an answered
When every witch will be plucked from the platform
of sin
And hails of rain 'll douse land for fruition
We ‘re still waiting for the moment

®EDMOND EKO