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AFTER GRIEFS & RUINS (a poem by Qudus Olowo)

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rebirth is the new breath as time shunned
the complexes of a pernicious plague
& sombre chaos.

the earth/grew/ into solidarity
after grief gawped requiems into the soil /myringas/
sacred buffs— no longer hid in silence
& cloistered sanctums welcome god again/

little kids/ no longer glare on screen
at the cadaverous & stern faces 
of trite tutors.

the drunkard's filthy feet
—could trail its path
to the tattered tarvern & vodka
remains an unholy communion

at dusk/ lovebirds
shared their covert brown bed
& lust gripped the sheet again—
after a dreadful year

/anguish is no longer 
a diurnal cliché— in the taut tongue
of our weary world

yet, we still crawl at the shore
of griefs & ruins of the past

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