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Two Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2024

By
Stephen Oladele Solanke
General editor
Ernest N. Emenyonu
Edited by
Nduka Otiono  and
Chiji Akọma
Ernest N. Emenyonu
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Flint
Nduka Otiono
Affiliation:
Carleton University, Ottawa
Chiji Akọma
Affiliation:
Villanova University, Pennsylvania
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Summary

EONS BEFORE

eons before

we were the gods

when the world was a baby

then we thought all we did

were godly

in our ignorance

we troubled the masses

who we thought

had no fire

eons during

they were the gods

and outwards into spacelessness

they expelled us

nothing remained of us

of them

in our compound complexity

we and they felt

godly

eons after

a space less nothingness

devoid of all

we and they

existless

nothing floats

eons in eons

God

in Its all knowingness

tested we and they

we and they failed

fell

but

a light shines

and …

WHAT!?

it was the year

it flew

and we stood

agaped

it was our life

it went

and we watched

stunned

it was our country

it burnt

and we gaped

perplexed

it was our soul

it fried

and we metamorphosed

nothingness

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African Literature in African Languages , pp. 107 - 108
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2023

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