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| The Boiling Cauldron |
We came here
To live…in peace
We came…to find love
We aimed…to share friendship
And hoped…to fully embrace life
To savour the cooling breeze of nature
We sailed long…long distance
From the warmth embrace
Of our mother’s womb
To inhale the healing scents
Of paradise earth
We came…
To work and tilt the ground
Forever cultivate harmony
On the lush green
Of this globe-like plantation
Alas! We found nothing
Nothing…but strange scurrying bodies
Violently lurking in the shadow
Of the moonlight blaze
Like some turbulent frictions
On an extremely hot galaxy
Gold flaming, silver burning
Bronze melting, copper fuming
Ocean surging, global warming
Forest blazing, poisonous gas poluting
Earth quaking, flood invading
Power tussling, arms proliferating
Scurrilous rumours spreading, war
lingering
Al-qaeda deadly, al-shabbab scary
ISIS daring, boko-haram alarming
Mass weapon destructing, deadly terror
striking
Sociopolitical acrimony ravaging,
Ethno-religious struggles consuming
Battles raging, men fighting
Gun shattering, blood shedding
Suicide commissioning, bomb blasting
Love fading, hatred ruling
Peace failing, harmony falling
Hope dying, determination wanning
Soul shaking, heart breaking
Aids killing, fear soaring
Hunger maiming, poverty biting
Life’s threatened, home’s drenched in
chaos
Oh…this place is nothing
Nothing…but a hot, hot zone
Nothing…but a boiling cauldron.
©adeolagoloba 2015
