One from Okigbo

Lament of the Drums V

‘For the far removed there is wailing: / For the far removed; / For the Distant… / The wailing is for the fields of crop: / The drums’ lament is: / They grow not … / The wailing is for the fields of men: / For the barren wedded ones; / For perishing children … / The wailing is for the Great River: / Her pot-bellied watchers / Despoil her … ‘

- Christopher Okigbo (1932-67 – Killed on the battlefield during the Biafran War)

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