Biafra

the want of  Independence

was the wish of the Igbo

stifled by the Yuruba

great dissonance did grow

Cacophonous  intention

repulsed at every turn

whoever dares to mention

the historical  concern

a secessionist state

was wanted

Biafra it be

from 1967 until 1970

what turned out to be a  ghastly

Civil War

more frightening than

all the nightmares anywhere

Conducted  without   plan

it became a horrendous ordeal

the Igbo suffered long

the capturing of coastal oil

a blockage  it was wrong

mass starvation

then ensued

so many children died

the Conservative Islamic  way

It was a great divide

the arts and crafts

the music

the “highlife” so to say

the culture and the lifestyle

so different  by the day

language food and  belief  system

ancestral philosophy

The  core values

fictitious too

Apparently  an absurdity

in how and what we do

you can feel  the animosity

its out there and its true

Biafra lost so very much

With sacrifice we do

face an uncertain future

from what was an awful coup.