Gilbert Alasa
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My heart goes out to the Haitians
Having lost touch with the stillness of your land
Yet have you been made to travel still
Clinging your teeth to the back of trees
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I saw the sky yesterday, painted rage
With dark lining on its ample page
Quickly, endless strokes caught in a marathon race
To calm the earth’s hotness
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When I chose to pitch this tent
Beyond these forbidden limits, I sense
A sweaty embrace of a lonely realm
This bewitching little, little cares now I crave
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Everyone thronged his hole
Wondering where the ugly chap
Hid his bald head
From behind emerged
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The weary day slowly ticks away
But the journey seems lengthy by the day
Even at the dead of the night, the watch
Trade in earnest launch
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Sometimes I cry, somedays I groan
Yet, no one seems to behold
This ever-flowing tears
In this dark world I fare
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The ample stage a heed flung
And beseech those who crave to snoop
Its counsel
The familiar lots disdain, blaring
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Somewhere among naked clouds
Have we, but waning songs to sing
How could we stand these lingering frowns?
Such that scorn our faces still
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Can’t you feel?
How you gnaw my tongue so hard, yet pledge
To heal this wound thereof
You scratched the silver panel off my skin
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My heart ran past the eagle’s wing
Like a drunken driver on his death mill
Alas! A gleaming, glinting golden pheasant
Journeying these streets of thorny barb
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Gilbert Alasa Biography
Gilbert Alasa is an award-winning poet, playwright, lyricist, presenter, translator and a cutting-edge author. He is a student of the University of Benin, Edo state in Nigeria. He has written numerous articles some of which have been published in local and international journals. He is a committed journalist with a knack for unusual stories. Gilbert doubles as a social crusader. He is a recipient of numerous awards and academic recognitions. In 2011, Gilbert won the coveted Coca-Cola/The Nation newspaper Reporter of the Year Award and the Opinion Writing Prize, the same year. He is a freelancer with various print and on-line media outfits. He is a fast learner with an unflinching flair for social entrepreneurship, investment and technology. He is editor of Genex Magazine and President of Campus Eye, a media organisation that seeks to chart a new course for Nigerian students. When not writing, Gilbert watches soccer, meditates or simply hangs out with friends.)
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Cry For Haitians
My heart goes out to the Haitians
Having lost touch with the stillness of your land
Yet have you been made to travel still
Clinging your teeth to the back of trees
Your tears travel long
And sink somewhere beneath the sea shores
We all, together feel these tears
We all, together sing your fears
To that woman, we altogether sing
Lullabies to your puzzled seeds
Because we all see the gleaming morning sun
Setting your sweat, pain and toil to the dumps
A salute to that man with a heart to care
Your garment and bread you freely shared
One day we shall all sit at meat to drink
And sip from heaven’s stream in peace
This yoke, too; shall pass
Your fears shall sink to abyss’ stand
Oh Haitians, weep no more
Oh Haitians, mourn no more
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