Mazi, It’s Enough. Please Sit Down

Muna, when war breaks, we will run
Ask Dimkpa about his last son
Zimuzochi has embraced death
Ike is in temporal breath
I’m told no one is afraid here
Tell us not of the chills of fear
Show us shame that is so severe
Earliness won’t mean bigger share
Nightfall has left his hand with us
Obinna dethroned the Obi
Umunna starves, i ga-eri?
Gee nti, you can’t cure this evil
Harm has built her house in our hearts
Pain no longer describes our pain
Let’s run without food, without shoes
Eat dust not beaten by the rain
Act as if we choose where we bruise
Sit until this is all over
End this rush of vain hangover
Settle to sieve our father’s ash
I seek to ask you to shut up
These names are children we can’t find
Drowning underneath these pavements
Ours we have ploughed, ours we’ve plundered
When war breaks, we run without word
No single language leaves with us

Leonell