USA Africa Dialogue Series - Sun, Would You Shine Again? (Poem)

By Chidi Anthony Opara

 

I broke my silence again.

I asked the sun

Whose rays refused to rise;

Sun,

Would you shine again?

 

In the middle

Of fierce fighting by jihadists

And the flight from fronts

Of warriors without weapons,

In the middle of flight of funds

From this land to foreign lands,

In the middle of brain drain

And the drain of blood by diseases,

In the middle of darkness

Ebola emerged.

Sun,

I asked again;

Would you shine again?

 

Would you shine again on this land

Sun?

This land

Once full of shine,

Now griped by gloom.

This land

Whose dwellers dwelled in surplus

And supplicated

To their gods with surplus sacrifices.

Sun,

Would you throw your rays

On this land again?

 

(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved.)

 

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

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