Submitted By: Bruce Onobrakpeya
Cosmic hawks!
The Omen was clear
The summon urgent
No time to say goodbye
As a sudden eruption
Sets survivors afloat
on a tortuous
Sometimes chartless
Refugee trail
Where do these birds come from,
Whither are they bound?
A replay of refugee episodes
Laden on the wings of the birds
And projected on the wide sky screen
Shows horror, frequency
and global magnitude
of one of man's greatest scourge.
See the red Sea open
To allow Israelites
Pass into fourty years
Ramble in the desert.
See the same Red sea
Give water- burial
To pursuing Egyptian
Soldiers.
These phantoms
Agents of destablization
Also force nature to rebel.
Is not the sahara
In a reckless
Territorial expansion
Waging a south bound war
of drought and deluge?
What name shall we give
To that child
Born prematurely
in a filthy refugee camp
Where the mother had to wait
three months for her supposed country
To send a boat to pick her?
Man is not helpless
He can break the jinx
with controlled pronouncements
Actions and reactions
Preparedness for emergency
And prompt response to S.O.S.
We can tame these birds and even harness them
For human progress.
© 1989 - Bruce Onobrakpeya
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