USA Africa Dialogue Series - Premonition (Poem)

By Chidi Anthony Opara

This scene

of elephants

on mines infested ground

spoiling for a fight

shivers my spine.

Resolve differences

and tread softly

off that ground!

Lest you detonate mines

and unleash holocaust

and kill life

in few minutes, 

and confirm

my premonition

of imminent extinction

of life.

(This 1986 poem, presented in the era of cold war between the United States of America and the defunct Soviet Union, is presented again in the light of current faceoff between the United States and North Korea, as a social service, all rights reserved)

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