| Unbowed, Unbent, Unwavering & other poems |
Poetry
Unshackled They came, they came away from us.
all of April’s rain, pouring
Breathe girl! My lungs forbid
Breathe!
the air that choked my father” Feel girl! I feel my skin turn to porcelain, to bark, to stone
Feel!
On their faces, they wrote our names What are your names child?” Name us a body, we have not burned in They called us; Okpuku jiko anyi - The bone that binds Of our bones, we carved our children’s laughter Who died here? Death can not kill a god named Lies, gods, lies, your name, lies,
I’ll rip your tongue from your skull! Death can not kill a breath drawn
We dare not sing after a storm,
we are not sparrows
we dare not walk out of flames ,
we are not steel We dare… We will. 149