Poem: Devil on the Loose!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Hope Eghagha 

 

Devil is on the loose, 

Fire is on the loose

This could be our noose

Unless we cut the noose

 

Someone loves the noose 

He rigidly fiddles for the noose

Cos he has nothing to lose

 

If we all face the noose

Our necks are tightened by the black noose

Black patriots cry about the noose

Even white strangers cry about the black noose

 

Yet fat messengers of the noose

Indolently remain on the loose 

To praise the hands of the noose

 

Till the raging fire of the noose 

Consumes us with herdsmen’s noose

Who then shall tell the news of the noose?

 

(c) Hope Eghagha, University of Lagos