By Victor Uzodinma Chukwuma
49. Life will be everlasting
When hades torrents persist,
And storms hold the sky captive,
Don’t sag, for amazing grace
Will among the people descend.
The Sun will come,
Come it will from above the steel blind
Into the darkness,
And darkness will overcome it not.
When this salvation light come
Shinning on all categories of purgatory,
There will be life for souls in the darkness,
This life will be life everlasting.
50. Exodus of January 1970
Morning drew driven steps
Past our ajar door.
Some came in,
Wrinkled anguish laced their face.
Shrapnel driven and wrapped in rags
With caked dust to match,
The tired lot sat around the fire place,
Only swollen feet told their tale.
Where to again?
What hopes?
How and when?
Ran in their famished mind, I knew.
But when the shelling roared close,
We followed, racing in hordes
Through the land, that was no more for
All were infested by the invaders’ reach.
Victor Chukwuma, Professor of Physics, renowned for his immense contribution to the development of Astronomy and Space Science in Nigeria, is a Fellow of the Astronomical Society of Nigeria and the Nigerian Institute of Physics.