WEEP WITH WE NO MORE By S. A. David

Category: ode, free verse

Have you seen them?
My distant uncle?
My distant aunt?
Two crowns on their head,
Revered by the Germanics
And more.

Adorned, beautifully
By the star sprangled
Banner.
Their journey began
Two thousand score
Ago.

Born by Vespucci.
Nurtured by Columbus.
Explored and exploited,
By the lionic lambs.
Just as Darwin
Gave the forecast.

They became slaves,
In their very own heaven.
Dressing the garden
Of their slavers.
Growing the plantation
For a little pence.

Yet, they tolerated,
Looking for a safety,
And smiling still,
With the lions.
But lifting their eyes
To the very hills

Jefferson came an answer
On the fourth of the
Seventh.
Not without haemoglobin
Were they made freeborn.
Gettysburg followed suit.

The street of the wall.
The huge depression.
The women’s fight.
The winter war.
The nine,
Of the eleventh.

Yet, she produces
More calcium,
In the face of Panarin’s forecast
Of the star sprangled
Banner
Into six shreds

Now we cry
For our parents to
Divorce.
For the reason
Of haram’s threat
We accelerate Lysosome

No more divorce,
Contested or uncontested.
Daddy and mummy, you
Need each other.
You will do this
For the sake of your children.

You faced the inferno
Of the ninety and,
Sixty six;
And you scaled
The hurdle;
Unsinged.

You have seen worse,
Than the inferno.
Yet, Jesus, and,
Kudirat
Have been faithful;
To a fault.

They said we have
Reached the finish line.
But your children
Have just begun.
Though we fall and stumble,
It won’t get to us.

You have built us
A home.
Not perfect but respectable.
We have nowhere to go;
For our home and hope
Belongs with you.

Ebiem had designed
A new cartograph;
A post nup.
But mummy, daddy,
Your divorce will fling
Your children into penury.

But Ebiem we tell you,
Hilary believes in our
Future.
Clinton says our
Future
Is limitless.

Mummy, daddy, we arise,
We obey your call,
To a fault.
Your past labour
Won’t come to
Nought.

We are one big family.
A threat to the enemies.
A refuge to the oppressed.
Like the broom bunch,
We can’t be broken.
So weep with we no more!