"STRANGE NIGHT" A Poem By Adedeji Raphael — Pawners Paper

Strange night comes with strange omens Crawling on the face of a mourning glowless dark sky And the grievous movement of a lost wind Fluttering again

Strange Night

Strange night comes with strange omens

Crawling on the face of a mourning glowless dark sky

And the grievous movement of a lost wind

Fluttering against the eyelashes of a blind night

- The wolves howl in unison with a banished voice

That breaks the rowdy waves of savagery seas

& the vultures perch on the roofs of innocent abode

Mocking and imitating the high pitch voice of the nightingale

When its sweetness was stripped and shred into a naked screech of anguish.

- Windows shut, doors closed, the euphoric

State of street poisoned by the cold fangs of silence,

Night comes with empty stomach roaming around the street

With the faces of sons, daughters, mothers, fathers as mask

To replay the story once etched on the frozen face of yesterday,

- Strange night comes with pale faces of sons

Whose voices faded with the slashes of heavy blades on their flesh

& of daughters who cascaded their faces

To hide the dark imagery formed into their crowded vision

& of mothers who forgot the tingling pain of babies teeth

On the breast, now saggy, emptied of new milk

& of fathers who in scrawny bodies danced to the dirges

Recited by their frazzled tongues from a deserted land.

Strange night comes with fiery tears melting

Dark candles moulded from fragments of haunted memories

Shredded from skin to skin, to remind of who we were,

Of Dark skin bleached by the rough touches of misery,

Of amputated words with once huge feathered wings,

Of chants swirling to the beats of valour,

Of pains, of servitude, of unshed tears, of forced,

Heavy armours worn on emaciated bodies of those who sworn,

To tend a withering bud into a blossoming flower,

Of those who sacrificed their death at the glimpse of a sunny dawn,

To remind and question us worthless ingrate successors

All those for nothing?

Written by: Adedeji Raphael

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