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In most of Gernany, October 1st was all about beer. However, it was Independence Day for Nigerians all over the world. To celebrate this, I revisited some poetry I wrote a few years back.

Nduka Onwuegbute

Here's a sample:

Are the rivers standing still?
have the seas lost their salt?
Will the rivers salt the seas?
Will the seas run the rivers?

With stagnant rivers
saltless seas
Bile for hunger
Venom for supper

Is it time?
Time for answers?
Time for questions?
Time for both?

Adored by foes,
Abhored by friends
A miscrean hurricane,
Did anyone know me?

Riding this hearse
Lost in the crypt
Eulogies, false and exagerate
Stab me back to consciousness.

Ask not what I'm up for.
They that know the question
Must have the answer.
Else, why ask the question?

Is the riddle not the riddle?
Is the answer not the answer?
Then question not the question.
Pray...what is the question?

Aks not the question
The question is the answer
And the answer is the answer
Then what is the question?

this is the answer:
Was I not doomed to live?
Was I not blessed to die?
Was I not born to ride this hearse?

Was my timing wrong?
Was ime's timing right?
Was my timing wronged by time?
Did my timing wrong time?

Whose timing wronged the other?
Why was I hung limp?
Dare I answer the answer?
Robbed of air, I ride this hearse?

Nduka Onwuegbute

{to be continued}

Quite moving.

I quite like this; when is the continuation?