POEMS: Inmates of time

Prof Victor U. Chukwuma

By Victor Uzodinma Chukwuma

61. Death at Dawn

So with the wails,

You have gone.

Listen Mother Maria;

Give me your ears.

Where ever you go,

In your reincarnations,

Let this not befall you,

And never to us.

62. I don’t believe

This night,

I listened to the radio,

As names of selected few,

Went for guided success.

And I said:

I don’t believe in this Nigeria.

I don’t believe in the land for a few,

The place frowns on my existence.

But I love the land

My passion for the just

Comes justly first.

So I believe in Nigeria that is just.

And that justice pure as grace,

Its colours amazing, bright and soothing,

We will bring home,

I and all that long for peace.

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.

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