Local Poet - Eromosele Innocent

MEET EROMOSELE INNOCENT of Nigeria    © Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be duplicated or copied without the expressed written consent of the author. return to local poets page

 

 

 

Our Ancestors

 

They are considered dead

Resting in their graves

Harmless as the dove

Humble as the duck

Naive like the young

Indifferent to the world

 

What about the figures

that flirt in our dark

The sounds of the whirling wind

The tides of the ocean

The cracking of rocks

The rain that drops

The success that we make

The avenge we get

Our efforts are negligible

The considered dead are in action

They feel our pains

They are momentous

Though they died

They are never dead

 

           by EROMOSELE INNOCENT

              NIGERIA