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Casualties: Poems 1966-68
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June 15, 2009
Nigerian poet John Pepper Clark's poems of the Nigeria-Biafra war.
Dirge
Show me a house where nobody has died
Death is what you cannot undo
Yet a son is killed and a daughter is given
Out of one seed springs the tree
A tree in a mad act is cut down
Must the forest fall with it?
Earth will turn a desert
A place of stone and bones
Tears are founts from the heart
Tears do not water a land
Fear too is a child of the heart
Fear piles up stones, piles up bones
Fear builds a place of ruin
O let us light the funeral pile
But let us not become its faggot
O let us charcoal the mad cutters of teak
But let us not cut down the clan!
Dirge
Show me a house where nobody has died
Death is what you cannot undo
Yet a son is killed and a daughter is given
Out of one seed springs the tree
A tree in a mad act is cut down
Must the forest fall with it?
Earth will turn a desert
A place of stone and bones
Tears are founts from the heart
Tears do not water a land
Fear too is a child of the heart
Fear piles up stones, piles up bones
Fear builds a place of ruin
O let us light the funeral pile
But let us not become its faggot
O let us charcoal the mad cutters of teak
But let us not cut down the clan!
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