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ELEGY FOR A KILLER-VIRUS LOCKING THE WORLD DOWN (a poem by Emmanuel Ojeikhodion)

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Everything was normal before the
world embraced the language of silence.
Our lives reduced to fear & our bodies mastered
the ritual of distance.

Nobody knew that face masks & sanitizers
would join the necessities of living & the air
would be a messenger of death blowing a
killer-virus to our nostrils

The news from the death tolls dampens my
eyes with fear. Each day finds me folding inside
my body— distancing from a circuit of communication.

Somewhere around, a sneeze only wreaked out from a
man's throat & everyone faded away like smoke.

The world is on a tour of lockdown. We can only hope to unlock
our body from her manacles & be free again.

There is a song waiting inside my mouth. Waiting to be sung
when the world becomes stable again & everything returns
to normalcy.

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