DYING EMBERS

Upon this bushy spot,
A cathedral once stood

With dome covering our heavens.
The cathedral brought an epidemic
In it’s belly.
The epidemic afflicted our community;
Mostly women and youths,
That they defaecated on our sacred shrines,
And dancefully clapped their hands
To a song their fathers did not learn.

Upon this bushy spot,
A cathedral once stood,

Until time beamed some light
Exposing the filth of those parsons
And the deception of their profession.
Now, the same youths
Who rebelled against our ancestors
Are demolishing the relic of the cathedral,
Leaving women and children
To fan the dying embers
Of a dying religion.
But my melancholy remains;
These rebellions youths
Are neither in our shrines
Nor in the cathedral
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Posted: Nov 2009
About this poem:
Africa was at peace and tranquility before the White man came. Chinue Achebe's THINGS FALL APART and NO LONGER AT EASE are clear testimonies to this fact. But the Europeans came with the Bible and build Cathedrals. Our people abandoned their sacred traditions and the pristine paradimns of peace and harmony. But today, everything is in disarray.

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