Hero

(For David Emeka Kalu ) You’re tangled up in politicsyou’ve drowned yourself  in ink blotsJesus Christ redemptionis your full time job. Here rhetoric & proselie hand in hand: dug down deep inAfrican Bad Lands where death hisseswhere death huddles & colludes. You’re tangled up in politicsall dried up & superimposedno time for living, giving, loving,you love the whole world. Love lost in Hero prime timeyou know that now’s the right timeto become a martyr to quarter sainthoodto write a testament for what you think is truth. Beko & Mandela point a waythrough beatings & prison cellyou try again to quellthe treachery of despotism. You’re stitched up in heroismthe word etched on the pageyou’re a symptom of the rageof an entire nation