Another Midnight Massacre



All through wee hours of the morning
Laminga wail their missing persons, mourning
And the track road leading into Amurum forest
Stained with droplets of blood down the terraced
Searching into sunrise by Lafon river parts
headless corpses, dissected body parts
littered everywhere, now unidentifiable
As indigo chirps, tension grew so palpable

This was another midnight massacre
When men slept, this ambush occur
Bukuru have breached the truce
So all hell must be let loose
 We must return  to war
The young ebullient youth swore
To avenge the blood of their heroes past
Their Heart drumming so fast

It is war without end  
For this we can no longer pretend
Tales of indigeneity, hate fomentation
Passed down from generation to generation
In fighting a war of inheritance
Tens of thousands snuffed from existence
As senseless conflicts and retaliation
Have become their everlasting damnation

About this poem

This poem is a kind of call to put an end to generational conflicts, both at the international or local level. A stop to passing hate and bitter tales to young people from one generation to another

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Submitted by Benny11 on October 02, 2023

Modified by Benny11 on January 28, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJKKJJ
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 895
Words 149
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8

Benson Chukwueke

Owerri, Nigeria since 1971. This is how I process and express my innermost cogitations; sitting back with pen and paper, painting words and polishing them until they become flowered verses. I guess for these actions, I could be called a poet or what do think? more…

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