Jos Riots

In the spirit of my renewed desire to start writing something each day, I have decided to post here a poem that I wrote during the tumultuous period in Nigeria, about the Jos riots. 

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Jos_riots or you could just google for 2010 Jos riots. 

It was indeed terrible, you should have seen pictures of the aftermath, lives were wasted, and I indeed had something to say then, my heart was poured out, onto a paper, but now it's being transferred from paper to computer, so here goes:

Jos, oh Jos, I thought I knew you so well

Celebrities; actors, models, singers, you gave birth to

Respectable men and women, we've heard of them all

Your sons and daughters, did they not feed you?

No food, so the monster in you had to wake up?

And what made me think you were a vegetarian?

But recently, I heard about your craving for meat

But then should it have been men, women, children?

You turned a cannibal, mind to tell me when?

The cries of agony from the blood of the innocent

You had to cause pain, why were you sent?

Children, overnight, you turned orphans

For the heat to cool down, it'll require a million fans

Wives turned widows, look at the damage

Be free to look out your windows

OH! I forgot, houses were burned to the ground

How sad to think you would commit these atrocities

It's a shame that one of our beloved cities

Would allow for such ridiculous extremities

Pain, bodies damaged beyond recognition and yet for God you did it

Hmm! Aren't we all waiting for that Judgement day we so much beleive in?

When every man will be rewarded, it'll be a surprise

That your crowns will not be for how many souls you've destroyed

Or how many's dreams you've managed to leave shattered and broken

I may speak until tomorrow, and you'll never hear my voice

But I won't stop, until peace, you make your choice!

Ayokunle Falomo (C) 2010.