On April 2, 2015, terrorists attacked a Kenyan University Campus, fatally shooting hundreds and injuring many others in the process. This poem is dedicated to the 147 dead and several other injured victims of the Garissa University College, Kenya.
Dying young
Flags fly in half mast,
barely able to dance to the
sardonic rhyme of the air's dirge.
The crows shed tears of sorrow.
oh! how prematurely they have been
reaped - leaders of tomorrow.
Death wore four innocent faces,
to disguise the sinister
nature of its mission,
They sneaked into a University campus,
and made a happy nation bitter.
Four index fingers pulled four triggers,
they fed the bellies of the innocent with hot lead.
147 smiles, crying to their graves; untimely.
We shall not cower, we fear not,
until we pull off these societal weeds
and make them pay
for the innocent they made bleed
Onyeoziri Favour
(Writer, poet and blogger at
Rouvafe.blogspot.com)
May their soul rest in peace... Nice piece #poetsforpeace
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