NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA - POEMS

Ngozi Olivia Osuoha is a young Nigerian poet/ writer and a graduate of Estate Management. She has some experience in banking and broadcasting. She has published some works abroad in some foreign magazines in Ghana, Liberia, India and Canada, among others. She enjoys writing.

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                           THE DEVOURING SHEPHERD

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Hunting men
Killing women
Butchering children,
Belittling mankind
Desecrating humanity
Preserving cattle
Dignifying livestock
Grazing in residential area.

Maiming men
Wasting women
Crushing children,
Melting mankind
Hijacking humanity
Choking the earth
Suffocating the world.

Band of wolves
Legion of lions
Cluster of tigers
Grazing in farm land.


The devouring shepherd
Roasting men for his beast
Idolizing his cattle
Immortalizing his livestock
A bloody missionary
Hunting human
Safeguarding animals
Awkward shepherd
Satanic shepherd.
 


                   RAPE A DESECRATING MONSTER



Poor child hawking on the street
Helpless girl sleeping in shanty,
Harmless lady working late
Unarmed woman walking home,
Rape; a debasing masquerade.

In jail or in school
Victim or victor,
Arrested or detained
In lonely track or busy road,
Rape; a devouring vulture.

Attacked or robbed
Empowered or overpowered
Targeted or outsmarted
Ambushed or waylaid,
Rape, a dehumanizing beast.

Lured or enticed
Seduced or used,
Lusting or loving
Hated or hatred,
Rape; a demonizing scorpion.

Under the tree, by the slum
In the desert, by the stream
Bet, game, set up or revenge
Forbid battery, forbid rape 
Rape; a defiling demon.

Once raped, always remembered
Once molested, always bitter
Once violated, always aggressive
Once humiliated, always irritated,
Rape; a discouraging spirit.

SACRED OR NOT....RAPE NOT