WHEN AGAIN AND WHERE? Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI

KEMKA S. IBEJI


It ceased to live within humans

It took a flight to no known where

It's all fears and woes about us

When again and where?

In times past and in history

The aged and young gathered

In the nights with all the chills

There under the trees and shades

They told stories of times

While the aged kept memories

The young kept records

No one gave powers to ills

When again and where?


As little as 6 and 7

We walked miles into swamps

Across streams and rivers

Tilling in the chills of all silence

It was in company of the vegetation

Thin voices of birds were our melody

We got no fears for the wrongs of now

Our peace was just guaranteed

But now it's all different and unsafe

When again and where?


We heard about head hunters

We heard of the death of kings

Their rituals of heads of virgins

The burial in company of maids

We saw none but heard all

We obeyed the stories for life

It's now a reality beyond tales

What has gone bad and wrong?

Where did we get it wrong?

When shall our peace return to us?

When again and where?


Now this is our story

We may die by it

We may tell it our children

But peace is no more common

It's kidnapping and murder

Assassination and suicide

Killings and army of diseases

Peace is on a journey

Whence it goes we never knew

Its return date we may never know

When again and where?


Oh peace!

The being that cares

The existence that calms

The hope of love and joy

When shall we again be with you?

What shall we pay to gain you?

Where do we visit to cheer you?

When again and where?

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