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We No Longer Remember: A Poem by Nnaemeka Oruh

Image: Luke Price via Flickr
Image: Luke Price via Flickr

WE NO LONGER REMEMBER

I can no longer remember

The faces of cousins of my childhood

Beautiful girls and boys whom together,

We dustied up the village-square in dry seasons

And in the rainy season shared the fireside

Eating roast corn and pear

 

Udochukwu left us pre-teen

   Louis, early teenage years

   Just a few got to semi-adulthood

 

Our innocence was murdered

At the threshold of teenage years

Dreams of a wonder-world slaughtered

By the gruesome hand of adulthood

 

Today we still aspire.

Building fresh dreams from the scattered bricks

Of shattered dreams

Dreams, which too soon shatter again

Providing fresh bricks for fresh

Temporary dreams.

 

I can no longer remember–and neither do you–

What it means to dream and believe in it

Reality is a gruesome night watchman with a sledge hammer

Hovering above us, and plundering

Dreams at their foetal stage.

 

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Poem © Nnaemeka Oruh

Image: Luke Price via Flickr

Nnaemeka Oruh
Nnaemeka Oruh
Nnaemeka Oruh majored in English, at the University of Port Harcourt, where he graduated as the best Graduating student of the 2002/2003 session. Oruh is interested in Poetry, and other forms of Creative Writing. He is an Essayist who has been published in various websites, and Newspapers in Nigeria and abroad. Oruh's basic area of focus is the travails of the Nigerian youth, and indeed the political problems of nigeria, which he believes is the root cause of all the problems in the country.

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