NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA - ​ AGONIES OF A RIVERINER

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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​                     AGONIES OF A RIVERINER
 
  Born beside water
  Thrown into it to float,
  Grew up, a fish
  Survival, inside it.
 
  Born in the shanty
  Bred in the slum,
  Suffering in the ghetto
  Drowning in the island.
 
  No boat, no ship
  No bridge, no border
  Toxic waste, gaseous water
  Muddy water, moody life.
 
  Rains wash the farms
  Floods sweep the shelters,
  Rivers overflow their banks
  Tragedy booming the doom,
  Aquatic land, dead people.
 
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