Hiding In A Coffin

For fear of dying

Big brother ran away

From the crowding of anger on the streets

Where a mass of hungry skeletons are stormed

Waiting in vain for the people’s champion

Away from the battleground

Where truth is pushed to the wall

By the gods and their ambiguous oracles

In  unfair and hideous encounters

Away from incensed protesting elements

And the terrible howling whirlwinds of deceit

Sweeping dust and blinding brother from brother

Away from the sun and his brutal rays

Now reigning in fatal glory

Big brother ran into his own bedroom

To hide in a coffin

And all for fear of dying.

Copyright: Dumbiri Frank Eboh 

Categories: Poetry