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CIVIL WAR

by Bakare Ibrahim Toyin Poet

 

 

 

Civil War

            

Thorns on apocalypse

For

Pains

Ignite their outcry

Encased in silence

Like kidnapped breeze

Lost in voice

As prodigal wind

Ocean blood across fingers

Legends in eerie

Sky holds her tears

Impotence turned land

Exile

As

Feet betrayed soil

Bereft beneath heart

When

Will fortress rise?

 

 

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Bakare Ibrahim Toyin Poet

Bakare Ibrahim Toyin is a native of Ilorin Kwara State Nigeria. Bakare is an undergraduate student at Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University in the Department of English and an upcoming writer whose works have appeared both online and on literary magazines. He presently lives in Ilorin.

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Bakare Ibrahim Toyin Poet
<p align="left"><u>Death at Dusk</u></p><p align="left">For Muhammed Ali</p><p align="left">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p align="left">Broken... Silence you dwell</p><p align="left">In tomb solitude womb</p><p align="left">As&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p align="left">Silent sky wept</p><p align="left">For cheeks to betroth</p><p align="left">Grief!</p><p align="left">Whirled the globe</p><p align="left">In pain beneath her heart</p><p align="left">Your naked soul</p><p align="left">Roared up hill</p><p align="left">Uprooted the fatuous-being</p><p align="left">Flexing-vain turned your dexterity</p><p align="left">Ring as realm</p><p align="left">Dwell</p><p align="left">In Eden</p><p align="left">Where death be not</p>

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