They Slumber (Part 1)

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They will rouse from sleep
That slumber away
In the median of geography
And lost to desired honours
From the two heads

They will wake fitfully
Stirred by cries of concern
That sleep too deep and long
While competing unfair termites
Destructively gnaw at our root.

(Monday 23rd April,2001,12.15pm)

Kingsley Egbukole

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Topic(s) of this poem: awakening,carelessness,community

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A situation in a community where many prominent indigenes felt unconcerned with the development of the community while neighbouring communities are developing and even encroaching on the community's land

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Edward Kofi Louis 10 November 2019

Mentality! ! Muse of the people living in a community. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Kingsley Egbukole 11 November 2019

Thanks so much Edward.

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