NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA - POEMS

NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA is a Nigerian poet/writer/thinker. A graduate of Estate Management with experience in Banking and Broadcasting. She has published over one hundred poems/articles in over ten countries. Her first two longest poems of 355 and 560 verses titled THE TRANSFORMATION TRAIN and LETTER TO MY UNBORN published in Kenya and Canada respectively are available on Amazon. She has also featured in over ten international anthologies/books/blogs. She is a passionate African ink.

​IF YOU SEE OJUKWU

​If you see Ojukwu
Tell him, I never saw him
But heard a lot he did,
Tell him I see his pictures,
That radiate determination
His Afro hair and beard
Typical of African masculine.

If you see Ojukwu
Tell him, I heard of the war
Its horrors that still hover
Its ghost that still haunts,
Tell him, I see danger
If you see Ojukwu
Tell him, nothing changed.

If you see Ojukwu
Tell him, they still kill
They still maim,
They still marginalize
Tell him, they still burn and bomb
Tell him, the war is still on
Tell him, they vanquished.

If you see Ojukwu
Tell him, tomorrow is uncertain
Tell him we are deadlocked
Heading to nowhere
Ask him who do we blame,
Fate, the gods, ancestors,
Black or white?

If you see Ojukwu
Fail not to tell him these
Please never hesitate
Perhaps he will reincarnate a saviour,
If you see Ojukwu
Tell him living here is a war
 Dying here is a war too

Humanity

​If you can keep peace
And tolerate yourself,
If you can be educated
And enlightened,
Then the world would be better.

Peace, if you can live within not beyond
If you can dwell forever not far away,
Then the world would be a heaven.

Tolerance, let your movement spread
Penetrate into the darkness
And strengthen the weakness of men,
Hearken to humanity and sustain him
Let us live in one piece of peace.

WOMENDOM

​From the beginning
She was beautiful,
From the origin
She was lovely.

She was never less than beauty
Nor anything fake,
She was real like the star
And bold like the moon.

Now, she is weird and wild
Crazy and daring,
Forward and curious
Inquisitive and anxious.

She could wear silicon
And metals for beauty,
She could bury harmful objects in her body
Her workplace is a threat upon her own threat,
Her home is a circle of waves
And religion has got her insane.

Culture is very unfair
And tradition is not so friendly
In fact, the society is not even her companion.

The woman is not that safe
And the future is not that sure.