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Blood on the Plateau

By Kenneth Nnamdi
October 6, 2010

The sky looms;
silhouetting morbid fear.
The Owl chirps;
the Clouds thicken,
the sky darkens,
voices muffled,
faces contorted.

Black huge Vultures,
ominous birds,
Perched.
Vultures with Lethal
curved beaks as sickles,
looked down below,
upon human corpses.

The rain came in showers,
it drizzles,
it came in torrents,
the rain of blood,
of death,
of carnage,
of lamentations,
of woes,
of wailing.

Blood streams upon the sand,
gory sight to behold.
Curdling into blood cakes.
Flies hover and buzz
in their macabre dance.
Nauseous stench hung
in the air.

Down, the vultures descend,
covering the sky like an army of locust;
darkness envelopes the firmament,
humans entrails,
the delicacy of vultures,
litters the ground.
Here and there,
vultures in the lethal alms
screw the socket of
Cadavers.

Sickled-beaks gorging
meals of human bodies.
Then, on this plateau;
in this state, the gyration
of Death continues . . .

[Author’s comment: This poem was inspired my desire to see an end to the war between the Ezza and Ezilo communities in Ebonyi State. The poem is also an appeal to the combatants to stop warring and embrace PEACE in order to end the senseless waste of human lives.]