By Chidi Anthony Opara
The war dances end.
The symbolic sword fights end.
The rituals of blood end.
The royal gong sounds,
The royal messenger speaks
Sending message
To the kingdom whose silence
The graveyard envies.
"Our immortal monarch
Goes on a journey",
The royal messenger lies.
Men forced
To shave their heads,
Women forced
To shave their pubic places.
The royal messenger
Continues the assault on truth.
"Our immortal monarch mounts
The throne of his forefathers
In the great beyond".
The royal messenger lies again.
Vultures hover
And descend on the bodies
Of slaves sacrificed.
Decomposition
Awaits the body of the monarch
Even in that ornamented grave.
(Poem presented as social service, all rights reserved.)
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