By John Vincent
(For my Jos boys)
Jos was not just just to all of us. Plateau made the chaos that took away your pure souls to where torment is.we would purge out all our sins for this. I am not happy at all. I am not!
some feelings keep chasing me like a hound dog back into dungeon of tribulations, to lines where angles of triangles demacate fantasy and reality. The pages of our poetry are blurring into muse of darkness. my eyes are dry crystals of oblivion reflecting the images of gore in the sunny bush of Jos but I cannot squeeze to spill tears again for: my tears are dried from their source.
black is the garment of this tributes. So long a tribute would this stand to be after the genocide thrush hypertensive bullets into my heart.
like the mood of the ink writing a dirge to the world of death for a home; a space for my boys, an entrance for shoes of mourners are opened for my kind to lit a candle light to mourn.
some feelings keep chasing me like a hound dog back into dungeon of tribulations, to lines where angles of triangles demacate fantasy and reality. The pages of our poetry are blurring into muse of darkness. my eyes are dry crystals of oblivion reflecting the images of gore in the sunny bush of Jos but I cannot squeeze to spill tears again for: my tears are dried from their source.
black is the garment of this tributes. So long a tribute would this stand to be after the genocide thrush hypertensive bullets into my heart.
like the mood of the ink writing a dirge to the world of death for a home; a space for my boys, an entrance for shoes of mourners are opened for my kind to lit a candle light to mourn.
you cannot come in if you do not have mission in this world. You can not come into this earth if you are not missionaries with the feelings of the world movers. there’s no father and mother in this midnight on the land for the lost plateau boys. All we have left is a scanty long farmland
with littered souls & spilled bloods. The stomach of the earth is full; he has lost appetite for these fleshes scattered here and there, he has no mouth to chew bones any more, too much of them to share with none not even a soul to din with. All are scavangers. Sometimes, my reasons are lost in the act of writing this. The country speaks the language of war. There’s no room anymore, upstairs is full and the downstairs is caged with spirits ascending with sad endings from their bodies; dry bones & bloated tongues planting seeds of discorn in all corners. This land is a snake with a tongue drawing ants like humans into her mouth with pity.
with littered souls & spilled bloods. The stomach of the earth is full; he has lost appetite for these fleshes scattered here and there, he has no mouth to chew bones any more, too much of them to share with none not even a soul to din with. All are scavangers. Sometimes, my reasons are lost in the act of writing this. The country speaks the language of war. There’s no room anymore, upstairs is full and the downstairs is caged with spirits ascending with sad endings from their bodies; dry bones & bloated tongues planting seeds of discorn in all corners. This land is a snake with a tongue drawing ants like humans into her mouth with pity.
I can not tell you how I get here neither do I know how you got there also. Remember I told you before this day that this land is a theater of tragedy leaving catharsis in our vain voices to a trailing cry. We are wailing our lips out to yield no hands on our hearts till a reason is established why this happened. No one cares about this documented massaacre in the cities of our land. This massacre that claimed multitude of lives within a twinkle of an eye.
we are the same water that washed away
our stains from our own flows; we swam on the epic of body of thorns laid on this bedrock of epic elegy; we drown our own blood spilling names written in black pen. in our own nerves of negativity; we floated into oblivion and absurdity of the African night depicted in a treasure of sin. Boys, remember that the foundation and beauty of sin is the consequences that lays within it. Through these sweats of survival; we keep sinking in this ocean of sorrow, lies & emptiness.
We keep hoping for a day of redemption to come. A call to the dead, a call to the undead nightmare we keep smiling to chase our reality away for us. You are the shadows to my light. I am faded colours of agonies emptying itself in glances of lost.
we are the same water that washed away
our stains from our own flows; we swam on the epic of body of thorns laid on this bedrock of epic elegy; we drown our own blood spilling names written in black pen. in our own nerves of negativity; we floated into oblivion and absurdity of the African night depicted in a treasure of sin. Boys, remember that the foundation and beauty of sin is the consequences that lays within it. Through these sweats of survival; we keep sinking in this ocean of sorrow, lies & emptiness.
We keep hoping for a day of redemption to come. A call to the dead, a call to the undead nightmare we keep smiling to chase our reality away for us. You are the shadows to my light. I am faded colours of agonies emptying itself in glances of lost.
Jos was not just just to all of us. I am on a research on the newly midnight In Plateau. It always begins in the same way, with the darkening condemnation of light in the prison of fates. It dwells in the bare chest of pains. When you grab it, it hallows with tablets of blood and bliss. List out your fears in between dreams and aspirations till your home seek for dwellers. I make this beds for your absence from home.
When the very first star of the evening glows out to keep our dreams warm and save from a pretty poet like me. You fought so long to keep this sanity yet, they took away your life bloodly. I can see the rainbow and the tears as the sun comes down in a scorching hot flames. Days gone by, the sky has become rotten with blood and cracked tears, what a silent night!
When the very first star of the evening glows out to keep our dreams warm and save from a pretty poet like me. You fought so long to keep this sanity yet, they took away your life bloodly. I can see the rainbow and the tears as the sun comes down in a scorching hot flames. Days gone by, the sky has become rotten with blood and cracked tears, what a silent night!
For even the lanterns of heaven can not bring us peace in this deep storm caused with a sword and guest guns found among our own brothers.
Showering into engraved countenances and drifting into infortive horrizon of fear that betrayed our honesty, is the will of one man over another, the fight of one man over his brother. The supremacy of a sister over her brother. Many defeated in the cause of this battle of supremacy. What then do we fight for since we are not taking anything home after death? What then is the reward for you when we take life you can’t create? A thousand sufferers in our own home trying to find their feet. we’ve been left to our hopeless fate trying to figure out where the pains started and where it would end without causing another havoc to the coming generation.
It still sinks through the slow flow of broken eyes, the last shout of our brothers and sisters before death arrived. When they fled into the hands of those murderers, they once screamed and shouted for help, for a close gate that could save guard them but none was seen by. Nothing brought the news of this death to us except the wind. The wind brought the breaking news to us, the raven came also with a sighted song of elegy
but we could not detect where and how it happened. Above the planes of the plateau, above the mountains of Jos, below on the ground of her grasses; the rivers and the oceans till the very existence of all our reasoning in the morning of this havoc only the first man of the throne could couple this drive into a little bit more of you.
It still sinks through the slow flow of broken eyes, the last shout of our brothers and sisters before death arrived. When they fled into the hands of those murderers, they once screamed and shouted for help, for a close gate that could save guard them but none was seen by. Nothing brought the news of this death to us except the wind. The wind brought the breaking news to us, the raven came also with a sighted song of elegy
but we could not detect where and how it happened. Above the planes of the plateau, above the mountains of Jos, below on the ground of her grasses; the rivers and the oceans till the very existence of all our reasoning in the morning of this havoc only the first man of the throne could couple this drive into a little bit more of you.
But at the end of this ancestry ancient drama, we will write this on a blank paper as a tattered theme of abstraction and as a vantage of lost in the hands of those we lean on their shoulders.
These memories shall remain a vague seas and oceans kissing the filtered sand. Miseries and memories, sadness and excitement, tears and laughter cluttered with gloomy experiences of what we have become in our own land owing to ourselves the shadows of dreams and smokes.
The Intimidating and infiltrated violence displayed in its entirety would drop off from the tears of the saints, hacking to drive home the little sanity that remain in us. Sometimes, I lose my self writing this. And the other times, I become another me holding the past and the present and the future together in oblivion.
We will come for you at the last day with an ambulance of truth and honesty. Then, our ancestral embraces would be for Africa alone. For we do not contribute to this pains they cause us all. I will continue to write to you until the end of time boys like no other boys.
These memories shall remain a vague seas and oceans kissing the filtered sand. Miseries and memories, sadness and excitement, tears and laughter cluttered with gloomy experiences of what we have become in our own land owing to ourselves the shadows of dreams and smokes.
The Intimidating and infiltrated violence displayed in its entirety would drop off from the tears of the saints, hacking to drive home the little sanity that remain in us. Sometimes, I lose my self writing this. And the other times, I become another me holding the past and the present and the future together in oblivion.
We will come for you at the last day with an ambulance of truth and honesty. Then, our ancestral embraces would be for Africa alone. For we do not contribute to this pains they cause us all. I will continue to write to you until the end of time boys like no other boys.
©John Vincent
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