How To Write A Dirge For Liberia
written by: Edwin Olu Bestman
Begin with its North that is covered in crystal tears,
Lips that dip, dwell and drown into silence,
With a heart that sleeps in a scattered field
Find a route to the West,
The west that births darkness admits the day,
Sweeps the smile that lights our way,
And writes stories on bitter leaves
Begin with the East,
Where we live beneath the grass,
Where our stomachs sing songs of sorrow,
And poverty is our next door neighbor
Sink down to the South,
Where the streets are wrapped with bits of rubbish,
Where the homeless are broken and stuck between rusty iron bars
Do not cry,
If these lines gonna create an ocean of unending tears,
Let’s begin with the government drawn in couplet
‘They are the thieves brandishing their pockets
With the fruits of her womb’
‘Tell how it employs cockroaches and rats,
To stir the affairs of her reserved’
Lastly, end with either an exclamatory or period,
Throw your sadness away,
And roll up your sleeve for another life
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