They Slumber (Part 2)

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They will wake and sit upright
To hear the painful moans of agony
Of confessed land in neglect
Like collectively owned He-goat
Fed by none to death

They will wipe their eyes alert
With back of palm and watch
To see and believe not in awe
What they lost away in sleep
While the termite ravaged in joy.

(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 11 November 2019

In neglect. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Kingsley Egbukole 23 December 2019

The community suffers. Thanks.

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